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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Two women who escaped the international drug trade and who are married to the highest level drug traffickers to become U.S. informants share never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs.
22) El México narco
Series
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
A collection of articles from the Mexican political magazine "Proceso" that examines issues related to drug trafficking in Mexico.
En este libro, que reúne el trabajo periodístico de Proceso, ofrecemos la visión del México narco--que aspira a evocar la expresión del México bárbaro de principios del siglo pasado, salida de la pluma del periodista estadounidense John Kenneth Turner que los reporteros, corresponsales y enviados especiales captaron...
Author
Series
Wolfe family novels volume 2
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on his own, Eddie crosses the border to work security for a major Mexican drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja. Eddie falls for a mysterious woman named Miranda, whom he learns too late is the property of an intimate member of La Navaja's organization....
24) Heli
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
When Heli's twelve-year-old sister inadvertently involves him in Mexico's brutal drug ear, Heli must do everything it takes to protect his family. As he descends further into inescapable and nightmarish corruption and violence, it threatens to tear his life apart.
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 19
Language
English
Description
The good news is that Joe Pickett has his job back, after his last adventure in The Disappeared. The bad news is that he's come to learn that a drone is killing wildlife -- and the drone belongs to a mysterious and wealthy man whose son is dating Joe's own daughter, Lucy. When Joe tries to lay down the rules for the drone operator, he's asked by the FBI and the DOJ to stand down, which only makes him more suspicious. Meanwhile, bodies are piling up...
Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Two women who escaped the international drug trade and who are married to the highest level drug traffickers to become U.S. informants share never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs.
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Until now, the worst of the "war on drugs" has been kept quiet or in the realm of rumors: the real degree of brutality, the logic of the deals made, the accounts of massacres, the explanation of the attacks. Through deep documentary research and rigorous reporting, Juan Alberto Cedillo offers an unprecedented investigation that sheds light on these phenomena and clarifies fundamental questions about the fight that is raging, particularly in northern...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
On the eve of his marriage, the Counselor makes a risky decision to dealve into the cocaine trade along the Texas-Mexico border. His hope is that this one-time deal will set him and his fiancée on a path to financial freedom, but instead he ends up in a brutal game that threatens to destroy everything and everyone he loves.
Author
Publisher
AGUILAR
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
El presente libro recoge una muestra de su trabajo periodístico a lo largo de los volúmenes publicados por Aguilar: crónicas, investigaciones, reportajes, testimonios, escritos con sangre, rabia, dolor y un profundo sentido humano. El 15 de mayo murió asesinado en Sinaloa el periodista Javier Valdez Cárdenas. Autor de una serie de libros memorables sobre la Guerra del narco, sobre la tragedia que viven cada día los familiares en busca de su...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The exclusive inside story of the lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapo - the world's most wanted drug kingpin who evaded capture for more than a decade. A cinematic crime story following the relentless investigative work of Cole Merrell and his team unfolds at breakneck speed, taking the reader behind the scenes of one of the most sophisticated and dangerous counter-narcotics operations in the history of the United States...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border -- and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy. José Treviño was a devoted family man working as a bricklayer in Texas. Back in Mexico, his younger brother Miguel was ascending to the top ranks of Los Zetas, a notoriously bloody drug cartel. One day José showed up at a quarter-horse auction and bid close to a million dollars for...
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Within certain neighborhoods of Mexico, it's commonplace for children to come home to find their parents have been disappeared and they suddenly must flee with few supplies to fend for themselves as orphans. One special girl finds herself armed with three magical wishes, which attracts the attention of evil spirits. Haunted by ghosts and hunted by the cartel, she collects a group of allies and attempts to make them a home while ridding the streets...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint while enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies. A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping price, and the buyer was Miguel Trevino, one of the leaders of the Zetas, Mexico's most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested that...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As an adult book, Sam Quinones's Dreamland took the world by storm, winning the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction and hitting at least a dozen Best Book of the Year lists. Now, adapted for the first time for a young adult audience, this compelling reporting explains the roots of the current opiate crisis. In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Pure Narco tells the tale of arguably America's biggest cocaine trafficker and his capture in Venezuela during one of the biggest anti-narcotics takedowns of all time. But it is more than that; Pure Narco is unique in that it is a story of a family caught up in a life on the run and Luis Navia's adjustment to civilian life after prison"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"This is the true story of how El Chapo built the world's wealthiest and most powerful drug-trafficking operation, based on months' worth of trial testimony and dozens of interviews with cartel gunmen, Mexican journalists and political figures, Chapo's family members, and the DEA agents who brought him down. Over the course of three decades, El Chapo was responsible for smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, marijuana, heroin, meth, and fentanyl...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"DEA Agent Jack Riley tells the inside story of his 30-year hunt for the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, and reveals the true causes of the American opioid epidemic. Jack Riley, grandson of a Chicago cop known for using his fists, was born to be a drug warrior. Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, who farmed marijuana and opium poppies as a teenager in Mexico, was born to be a drug lord. Their worlds collided when Riley, a career special agent with...
40) El Mariachi
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Español
Description
"All he wants is to be a mariachi, like his father, his grandfather and his great grandfather before him. But the town he thinks will bring him luck brings only a curse of deadly mistaken identity. Forced to trade his guitar for a gun, the mariachi is playing for his life"--Container.
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