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William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and
friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the
mountains of Cuba. He led one band of guerrillas, and Che Guevara
another, and together they swept through the country, ultimately
forcing corrupt dictator Fulgencio Batista from power. In just a
year of fighting, the American revolutionary had altered the
landscape of the Cold War. But Morgan believed they were fighting
to liberate Cuba. Then Fidel Castro canceled elections, seized
properties, and imprisoned Morgan's fellow freedom fighters. Even
Morgan's own house mysteriously blew up. But The Comandante is
about more than just the revolution. It's the story of two people
in love, pressured by government agents and mobsters vying to
control a nation that soon brought the world to the brink of
nuclear destruction. In the mountains, Morgan met Olga Rodriguez, a
beautiful, fiery nurse, whom he soon married. Together, amid their
firestorm romance, they decided to take a stand and take back the
government from Castro and Guevara. The newlyweds began running
arms to prepare for a counterrevolution, soon caught in a
cloak-and-dagger web among Castro's forces; the Mob, which
controlled Havana; and the CIA's preparations for the Bay of Pigs
Invasion. But one of Morgan's guards betrayed him to Castro, who
threw the counterrevolutionary in prison, placing his wife and
their two daughters under house arrest. The couple smuggled secret
messages to each other until Olga ultimately escaped by drugging
her captors. Before she could free her husband, though, a junta
tribunal tried and sentenced him to death by firing squad. Drawing
on declassified FBI, CIA, and Army intelligence records as well as
Olga's diaries, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Michael Sallah and
Mitch Weiss skillfully reveal the inner workings of the Cuban
Revolution while detailing the incredible love story of a rebel
nurse and an American street hero who left their mark on history.
'I WANTED TO SEND A MESSAGE TO THE CARTELS. WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE. WE
KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT HARD FOR YOU. BUT AS
I WOULD SOON FIND OUT, THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE IT HARD FOR ME,
TOO.' Infiltrating cartels and bringing down international drug
lords since his days in 1980s Chicago, Jack Riley was one of the
best agents the Drug Enforcement Administration had ever had. But
when he moved to the border town of El Paso, he was on the front
line of the battle against Mexican cartels waging war just miles
away. His brief was to capture the DEA's deadliest target: El
Chapo. For over twenty years, Riley had seen the fear and bloodshed
that Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman Loera and his Sinaloa Cartel had
caused, whilst the availability of drugs on American streets had
exploded. Soon after arriving in El Paso, Riley found himself
entangled in America's most deadly feud, and a bounty on his head.
. . Drug Warrior is a thrilling journey into a life spent at the
heart of America's drug wars, including the opioids crisis now
ravaging its heartland, and a unique insight into the DEA's
operation to finally bring its long-time nemesis to justice.
The hunt for Ernesto "Che" Guevera was one of the first successful
U.S. Special Forces missions in history. Using government reports
and documents, as well as eyewitness accounts, "Hunting Che" tells
the untold story of how the infamous revolutionary was captured--a
mission later duplicated in Afghanistan and Iraq.
As one of the architects of the Cuban Revolution, Guevera had
become famous for supporting and organizing similar insurgencies in
Africa and Latin America. When he turned his attention to Bolivia
in 1967, the Pentagon made a decision: Che had to be stopped.
Major Ralph "Pappy" Shelton was called upon to lead the mission.
Much was unknown about Che's force in Bolivia, and the stakes were
high. With a handpicked team of Green Berets, Shelton turned
Bolivian peasants into a trained fighting and
intelligence-gathering force.
"Hunting Che" follows Shelton's American team and the newly formed
Bolivian Rangers through the hunt to Che's eventual capture and
execution. With the White House and the Pentagon monitoring every
move, Shelton and his team helped prevent another Communist threat
from taking root in the West.
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In a remote, enemy-held valley in Afghanistan, a Special Forces
team planned to scale a steep mountain to surprise and capture a
terrorist leader. But before they found the target, the target
found them...
The team was caught in a deadly ambush that not only threatened
their lives, but the entire mission. The elite soldiers fought
huddled for hours on a small rock ledge as rocket-propelled
grenades and heavy machine-gun fire rained down on them. With total
disregard for their own safety, they tended to their wounded and
kept fighting to stay alive. When the battle finally ended, ten
soldiers had earned Silver Stars--the Army's third highest award
for combat valor. It was the most Silver Stars awarded to any unit
in one battle since Vietnam.
Based on dozens of interviews with those who were there, "No Way
Out "is a compelling narrative of an epic battle that not only
tested the soldiers' mettle but serves as a cautionary tale. Be
careful what you ask a soldier to do because they will die trying
to accomplish their mission.
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