If anything, the fact that it was written in the eighties gives it a sense of immediacy. The book was originally published in 1988, although the author brought it up to date with an afterword in 2015. Read this if you want an in-depth companion to Narcos-Mexico or the Don Winslow 'Power of the Dog' books. So, to summarize, this is great book but now somewhat outdated but nevertheless a basis for Narcos: Mexico. Zavala, is the CIA or a a number of rogue CIA agents. I don't know if the producers claim to be factual-based but a more recent book authored by a reporter/writer of the magazine Proceso (which I haven't been able to get my hands on) claims that the culprits behind the killing of Agent Camarena and his pilot,Mr. Of course changes were made to "glamourize" some aspects of the narrative. But now after I was recommended to watch Netflix's Narcos: Mexico, I felt the need to revisit all the details of what went down and was known at the time, only to discover that most of what was portrayed in Narcos: Mexico is derived from this book. I bought the book around 1990, relatively still on the front burner -so to speak- and current. I first read Desperados shortly after reading the rather extensive coverage in the mainstream media about the death of Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, agent of the DEA stationed in Guadalajara.
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