Cover of Shadow Walker: Narco State, a thriller by Tony Cuesta. A woman with a wounded, rain-soaked face holds a suppressed pistol.

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In January, the United States went into Venezuela and captured Nicolás Maduro. Most people still don’t know why.

He was the leader of the largest drug cartel on earth: the Cartel of the Suns, named after the sun-shaped stars worn by the military generals. The Venezuelan army killed the last independent narco boss and turned the country into a full-blown narco-state. With the help of the DEA.

Shadow Walker: Narco State is that story.

2005. Black Ops contractor Alexa Walker poses as a surgeon to infiltrate the villa of wounded boss Orlando Quintero, racing to eliminate him before his cartel retaliates and triggers a civil war — in the operation that got the DEA booted from the country for good.

Written by Tony Cuesta, a shipment broker with firsthand insight into Latin America’s underworld. This isn’t another Mexican cartel fantasy by an ex-soldier having a midlife crisis.

Not for modern audiences or sensibilities.

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