The Real Mr. Big

Born in 1960 Jesus Ruiz Henao grew up poor but wanted to be rich like the drug dealers he saw growing up in the cocaine-producing region of Colombias Valle of the Cauca. To realize his ambition Ruiz Henao moved to London United Kingdom in 1985. There he and his wife settled in the quiet suburb of Hendon where he held down mundane but respectable cleaning and bus driving jobs. At least to outward appearances ...Actually Ruiz Henao kept a low profile while he built a wide-ranging drug distribution network that extended from Colombia to Spain and Europe and to the United Kingdom. For years he stayed one step ahead of law enforcement making more than a billion pounds over a ten-year period.However it was a riskybusiness with law enforcement on one side and ruthless competitors on the other. By the summer of 2003 Ruiz Henao decided to get out of the drug business. But he finally made the one mistake that would get him caught. It cost him a 17-year prison sentence with more tacked on when he tried to make one last deal from behind prison walls. THE REAL MR. BIG co-written by Ruiz Henao with bestselling author Ron Chepesiuk is the story of how an ambitious Colombian immigrant set up a sophisticated drug trafficking enterprise that earned him law enforcements description as the Pablo Escobar of British drug trafficking.