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IN THE THRALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING: The Secret History of EL CHAPO, the World’s Most Notorious Narco (In Search of El Chapo Book 1)

By Eaton, Phoebe

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Journalist Phoebe Eaton with El Chapo's mother, María Consuelo Loera Pérez, la madre del Chapo Guzmán. — *[IMAGE © PHOEBE EATON 2024]*

[Above, Phoebe Eaton with El Chapo’s 90-year-old mother Doña Consuelo Loera de Guzmán.]

Where Is El Chapo's Money?

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In the Thrall of the Mountain King

The Secret History of El Chapo, the World’s Most Notorious Narco

**Also known as: La historia secreta del El Chapo (Mexico)**

Amazon Kindle Single, #1 new Biography/Memoir its third day on sale; #1 Organized Crime Kindle Single, Best Narco Books (CLICK PIC TO BUY ON AMAZON)

Excerpted in the New York Post.

Winner: Mexico’s National Journalism Award 2021 (Premio Nacional de Periodismo) from the Press Club of Mexico, CDMX.

As featured on The Recount network’s News Items Podcast with John Ellis/June 22, 2021 : “Where Is El Chapo’s Money? With Phoebe Eaton.”

Phoebe Eaton journeys past cartel checkpoints up to El Chapo’s remote hometown hideout in the Sierra Madre to interview Joaquín Guzmán Loera’s family multiple times as his criminal trial rages back in Brooklyn, separating man from myth. Eaton’s interviews are widely regarded as the longest and most personal ever granted by El Chapo’s mother, María Consuelo Loera Pérez, and his sisters Bernarda and Armida.

The surprising telenovela details of his childhood are laid bare in this exploration of exactly how this third-grade dropout and Mexico’s most controversial narco-trafficker rappelled his way from the rock pile that is La Tuna, Sinaloa, onto Forbes magazine's billionaire list. How the Sinaloa Cartel boss managed to govern a $12.7-billion empire even as Chapo was never not on the lam, holed up in simple pine shacks with plastic folding chairs where the phone service went down if it was raining.

[“Extraordinario trabajo”] — 2021 PRESS CLUB OF MEXICO NATIONAL JOURNALISM AWARD CITATION

Also, surprising revelations about the Pentecostal faith his family (and he) credit with keeping him alive all these years. The unusual practices he believes helped him escape jail and the authorities over and over again. Including the gift his mother and sisters (and even he himself, supposedly) have of speaking in tongues.

The book features many hitherto unseen photos of Chapo's haunts in Badiraguato Municipality’s La Tuna, the surprising seat of empire. Also rare material from Chapo’s Brooklyn court trial, where he was convicted on all ten counts of his indictment and is now serving a life sentence in Colorado's Supermax prison.

How El Chapo lived and how he loved, the deal with his many wives and the very many children, and a multitude of new stories and details of his life and how he presents up close and personal straight from the courthouse.

The cover of Phoebe Eaton's award-winning book "The Secret History of El Chapo, the World's Most Notorious Narco." — ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9798218874278

In the Thrall of the Mountain King features many hitherto unseen photos of Chapo's haunts in La Tuna, the surprising seat of empire. And revelations about the Pentecostal faith his family (and he) credit with keeping him alive and free so many years.

[PHOEBE EATON receives Mexico’s National Journalism Award 2021 from the Press Club of Mexico in Mexico City.]

[CHAPO’S HOMETOWN HIGH IN THE SIERRA MADRE: La Tuna, Sinaloa. IMAGE © PHOEBE EATON 2020] — *[IMAGES ABOVE AND RIGHT © PHOEBE EATON 2024]*

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[Left, Chapo’s hometown high in the Sierra Madre: La Tuna, Sinaloa. Below, Doña Consuelo Loera de Guzmán, outside the church son Chapo had built so she could pray away the threat of his imprisonment.]

El Chapo's mother María Consuelo Loera Pérez de Guzmán, la madre del Chapo Guzmán, seated outside the evangelical church he had built for her in their hometown of La Tuna, Sinaloa.

[Above, Phoebe Eaton with El Chapo’s 90-year-old mother Doña Consuelo Loera de Guzmán.]

In the Thrall of the Mountain King

The Secret History of El Chapo, the World’s Most Notorious Narco

**Also known as: La historia secreta del El Chapo (Mexico)**

Amazon Kindle Single, #1 new Biography/Memoir its third day on sale; #1 Organized Crime Kindle Single, Best Narco Books (CLICK PIC TO BUY ON AMAZON)

Excerpted in the New York Post.

Winner: Mexico’s National Journalism Award 2021 (Premio Nacional de Periodismo) from the Press Club of Mexico, CDMX.

As featured on The Recount network’s News Items Podcast with John Ellis/June 22, 2021 : “Where Is El Chapo’s Money? With Phoebe Eaton.”

[“Extraordinario trabajo”] — 2021 PRESS CLUB OF MEXICO NATIONAL JOURNALISM AWARD CITATION

In the Thrall of the Mountain King features many hitherto unseen photos of Chapo's haunts in La Tuna, the surprising seat of empire. And revelations about the Pentecostal faith his family (and he) credit with keeping him alive and free so many years.

MORE PHOTOS HERE

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[Left, Chapo’s hometown high in the Sierra Madre: La Tuna, Sinaloa. Below, Doña Consuelo Loera de Guzmán, outside the church son Chapo had built so she could pray away the threat of his imprisonment.]