Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man

✍ Scribed by Corona, Martin; Rafael, Tony

• Book ID: 109583636
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 611 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101984642

✦ Synopsis

The true confession of an assassin, a sicario, who rose through the ranks of the Southern California gang world to become the leader of an elite, cruelly efficient crew of hit men for Mexico's "most vicious drug cartel," and eventually found a way out and an (almost) normal life.

Martin Corona, a US citizen, fell into the outlaw life at twelve and worked for an elite crew run by the Arellano brothers, founders of the the Tijuana drug cartel that dominated the Southern California drug trade and much bloody gang warfare for decades. Corona's crew would cross into the United States from their luxurious hideout in Mexico, kill whoever needed to be killed north of the border, and return home in the afternoon. That work continued until the arrest of Javier Arellano-Félix in 2006 in a huge coordinated DEA operation. Martin Corona played a key role in the downfall of the cartel when he turned state's evidence. He confessed to eleven murders. Special Agent of...