Here is the explosive true story of the biggest sting operation in Canadian police history – and the young Canadian pilot-turned-agent who helped pull it all off.
Seduced by the excitement and big money of drug smuggling, Douglas Jaworski was lured into a dangerous business relationship with the powerful Medellin drug cartel. The plan was to smuggle $250 million of cocaine into the United States by way of Canada. But when Jaworski suspected that his life was in jeopardy, he secretly turned to the RCMP.
Investigative reporter Peter Edwards chronicles the real-life cat-and-mouse game that followed, providing rare insights into the operations of both the drug cartels and law enforcement. Here are colorful portraits of the major players: from murderous drug lord Pablo Escobar-Gaviria, his scheming lieutenant Diego Alejandro Caycedo, and the flamboyant “King of Cocaine” Roberto Suarez to the brave and dedicated RCMP officers who risked their own lives to break the case. Here, too, is the troubling revelation of Canada’s vulnerability to major drug traffickers and the reasons why the RCMP is often helpless to stop them.
Today Douglas Jaworski lives in hiding from his former bosses.