American Made

ISBN-10: 1250174554
ISBN-13: 9781250174550
Pages: 384
Language: English
Published: 2017-09-26
Publisher: Forge Books
Author: Avram Noble Ludwig

Description

An adrenaline-packed novelization of the major motion picture starring Tom Cruise, from Universal PicturesAmerican Made is a major motion picture starring Tom Cruise, from the director of The Bourne Identity, released by Universal Studios. Like the film, this novelization is inspired by true events.A highly-skilled military/airline pilot recruited into running guns into Central America for the CIA, Barry Seal became the world's preeminent drug trafficker. A member of the Special Forces, also known as the Green Berets, he underwent rigorous training and few many missions into Guatemala before his honorable discharge Uncatchable, untouchable, he had flown up to five billion dollars worth of cocaine. In fact, $1.6 billion was discovered in an offshore account with his name on it.Eventually the law came after Seal, but by then he had made himself indispensable to the CIA, the Vice President, and President Ronald Reagan. Among other things, he had personally photographed Pablo Escobar, the head of the Medellin Cocaine Cartel, loading drugs into the CIA C123 military transport plane known as "Fat Lady." After that photo was leaded to the press and the US President held it up on national television, Seal wouldbecome a marked man with cartel contracts on his head.Would Seal elude the painkillers dogging his trail? Would the government protect him? Or did he know so much everyone wanted him dead?