William rempel biography

American journalist

William Charles Rempel (born 1947) is an American author and investigative journalist.

Rempel's reporting about Colombian drug lords for the Los Angeles Times and in his book At the Devil’s Table^[1] have led to English and Spanish language television productions.

He served as a story consultant for season 3 of the Netflix TV series Narcos (2017).^[2] The 80-episode telenovela En la Boca del Lobo (Sony-Telest, 2014) was based on the Spanish version of his book.

Rempel's latest book, released by Dey Street and HarperCollins in January 2018, was The Gambler: How Penniless Dropout Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History.^[3]

For most of his 40-year newspaper career, Rempel was an investigative reporter and editor at the Los Angeles Times.

In 2015, he toured Ukraine and the Republic of Georgia on a U.S. State Department-sponsored mission to advocate the value of aggressive inve