Copy received from St Martin's Press for an honest review

I have grown up knowing the stories of the Colombian drug cartels, of Pablo Escobar, and I remember the news stories when he was killed.

We always hear the story of the criminal. It gets romanticised for movies, they get turned into "heroes" of sorts, and all their evil doings get pushed to the side.

We see the jackets with the big yellow letters on them across our TV screens, but we never hear about the people wearing them.

Manhunters gives us the story of the 2 DEA agents right in the middle of the hunt and capture of Escobar. Steve Murphy and Javier Pena tell their stories from joining law enforcement to the aftermath of the Escobar years.

It is like reading a fictional thriller - except everything happened, even when it seems over the top and can't possibly be true. Their story was the basis of the TV show Narcos, which I watched and loved, and whilst part of that were fictionalised, it gave me a better visual of things as I was reading.

True crime stories can come across as dry reading, however Manhunters was not like that. Javier and Steve's writing had me so interested and involved, so much so that I ate a very late dinner last night as I didn't want to stop reading.

I would love to read more stories like this

@DEANarcos