narco killing fields. a small town in the midwest, where he played high school football, and dreamed of going into law enforcement. your first shot and carrying a badge was as a local sheriff deputy? right, working the street. one day, i was working with a buddy of mine, a foreign police officer and you said hey, why do you not just go into chicago, test for the dea? the dea the united states drug enforcement administration. he joined in 2007 at the age of 25. his new job brought him to a border city in the southwestern united states. his first order of business was to learn about the mexican narco culture. this included songs like and nino day la tuna, a ballad about el chapo. his mentor was an undercover agent that drew calls, in the book, diego. as his friends named him to me, i started to really understand what was behind