The explosive memoir of the two drug enforcement agents responsible for taking down Pablo Escobar and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos.
Javier Peña and Steve Murphy risked their lives hunting large and small drug traffickers in the decades they spent working for the US Drug Enforcement Administration. But their biggest challenge was the hunt for Pablo Escobar in Colombia. The two agents, who began their careers as small-town cops, have been immortalised in Netflix's Narcos, a fictionalised account of their hunt for Escobar. Now, for the first time, they tell the real story of how they brought down the world's first narco-terrorist.
Manhunters takes you deep inside the inner workings of the Search Bloc, the joint Colombian-US task force and its intensive operation to track Escobar.
Between July 1992 and December 1993, Pena and Murphy lived on the edge, setting up camp in Medellin at the Carlos Holguin Military Academy, to hunt down a man thought to be untouchable.
Their terrifying first-hand experiences form the beating heart of Manhunters, a gripping account of how two courageous agents risked everything to capture the world's most wanted man.