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Confidential source ninety-six, the making of America's preeminent confidential informant : a memoir, Roman Caribe and Robert Cea

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Confidential source ninety-six

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Roman Caribe and Robert Cea

the making of America's preeminent confidential informant : a memoir

A long-time confidential informant for U.S. law enforcement describes how he came to be in such a position and recounts how he risked his life and family and faced unthinkable dangers while meeting with gang and cartel leaders every night"A harrowing journey inside the hidden world of drug cartels by one of the top criminal informants in U.S. law enforcement history. The men he put behind bars know him as Roman Caribe or one of the dozens of other aliases he has used undercover. His handlers in the DEA, ICE, and FBI know him as Confidential Source Ninety-Six, or C.S. 96, named for the year he confronted the sins of his life atop a massive drug distribution ring and flipped, becoming law enforcement's secret weapon. In [this book], Caribe tells the extraordinary story of his transformation into America's most successful informant in terms of total narcotics seized--from the years of trafficking cocaine and marijuana across the U.S. for a terrifying drug lord, eventually becoming that man's number two, to his decision to defect and trade sides. In his first mission, Caribe set his sights on his onetime boss's brutal operation. In his next, he broke all protocol and made a daring foray into the notorious Fuentes Cartel, where he took down a family that was smuggling tons of drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border. As Caribe launched his career as a confidential source, finding his faith and seeking to finally do right by his stoic wife, Inez, and his four children, his marriage became stressed in new ways, the risks to his family unimaginable if he made a single mistake on the job. He found himself looking over his shoulder every day, knowing that with each drug ring or kingpin he destroyed, he made another dangerous enemy. For as long as he continued the high-stakes work, he would survive on the cunning of his tradecraft and his ability to improvise in the most terrifying circumstances. Unfolding in Southern California mansions, makeshift DEA trailers deep in the redwood forest, drug fronts in Spanish Harlem, fast-food parking lots where kilograms of cocaine and heroin change hands, and around the dinner table where Caribe began mentoring at-risk youth to help them avoid the mistakes he made, Confidential Source Ninety-Six is the epic saga of one man's quest to redeem himself and a thrilling look at the law enforcement battle that rages on in the shadows of our nation."--Jacket

The escape -- Thin ice -- Raul -- Ship of fools -- Down the rabbit hole -- The way out -- Reborn -- Switching flags -- Freedom -- The angel of death -- Burning down the house -- Undercover -- The demise of Tony Loco Tony -- Operation Clean House -- The cartel -- An unexpected gift -- Queen of Hearts, Lord of the sky -- The setup -- Bait and switch -- Takedown -- C.S. 96 -- Game on -- Life as C.S. 96

Confidential source 96