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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Racing from the remote, war-scarred landscapes of the Middle East to the blood-soaked chaos of the U.S.-Mexico border, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Clancy delivers a heart-stopping thriller that is frighteningly close to reality.
Working behind the scenes for the CIA, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive and barely escapes with his life. Undaunted, Moore is...
Working behind the scenes for the CIA, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive and barely escapes with his life. Undaunted, Moore is...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Dos espectaculares capturas. Dos sorprendentes huidas. La vida del poderoso narcotraficante Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, alias El Chapo, lejos llegó de su humilde niñez en la pequeña población rural de La Tuna en Sinaloa, para convertirse en todo un varón, un recio macho con las agallas para ser el capo más rico, poderoso y buscado del planeta. Andrés López López una vez más adentra a sus lectores al bajo mundo del narcotráfico....
4) The cartel
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A drug lord's prison transfer to Mexico upsets a precarious balance of peace and forcing a DEA agent to come out of retirement to stop the ensuing violence.
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Language
English
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Journalist Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past fifteen years, as opioid-based pain medications like OxyContin began flooding the prescription drug market, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin-- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, two to three times purer than its white powder cousin-- to the United States. The result has...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable.
What it like to be an employee of a global drug-trafficking organization? In the border town of Laredo, Texas, Gabriel and his friend Bart abandon promising futures for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the Mexican military. Mexican-born Detective Robert Garcia...
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English
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"Bold, brash, and beautiful, Kay Hamilton is not your average DEA agent- she's as infuriating as she is irresistible. Having recently been transferred to San Diego after a case in Miami brought her more notoriety than medals, Kay once again finds herself embroiled in an international bust. Tito Olivera, younger brother of drug czar Caesar Olivera, is within her grasp. If she takes down Tito, Kay is positive that Caesar will follow and when Caesar...
10) The exiled
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Back in the 1980s, Wes Raney was an ambitious New York City narcotics detective with a growing drug habit of his own. While working undercover on a high-risk case, he made decisions that ultimately cost him not only his career but also his family. Disgraced, Raney fled-- but history is finally catching up to him. Now in his early forties, Raney is living in exile, the sole homicide investigator covering a two-hundred-mile stretch of desert in New...
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Series
Publisher
Jus
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Malayerba' es uno de los libros más violentos que se han publicado en los últimos años, y también de los más interesantes, precisos, extraordinarios. Es la crónica, necesariamente fragmentaria, de la violencia del narcotráfico en el norte de México, o más bien de la experiencia de ese acaecer violento tal como se manifiesta cotidianamente en aquella zona del país: la vivencia de los niños, de los empleados y empleadas, de los ciudadanos...
13) La frontera
Author
Series
Cartel trilogy volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
For over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America's longest conflict: the War on Drugs. His obsession to defeat the world's most powerful, wealthy, and lethal kingpin, the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel, Adan Barrera, has left him bloody and scarred, cost him people he loves, even taken a piece of his soul. Now Keller is elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, only to find that in destroying one monster, he has created thirty...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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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...
15) The border
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Series
Language
English
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"The explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Force. What do you do when there are no borders? When the lines you thought existed simply vanish? How do you plant your feet to make a stand when you no longer know what side you're on? The war has come home. For over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America's longest conflict: The War On Drugs. His obsession...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"From one of America's most prominent philanthropists, an eye-opening, myth-busting new perspective on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Howard G. Buffett has seen first-hand the devastating impact of cheap Mexican heroin and other opiate cocktails across America. Fueled by failing border policies and lawlessness in Mexico and Central America, drugs are pouring over the nation's southern border in record quantities, turning Americans into addicts...
17) Heli
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
"When Heli's 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves him in Mexico's brutal drug world, 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"--Container.
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Lucrecia is the wife of Braulio Bermudez, the most powerful and influential drug lord of El Carmen. Lucrecia plays the submissive wife but she is clever and will do anything to keep her man. Bermudez, on the other hand, is bored of life with Lucrecia. He turns to younger women to satisfy his whims and needs. Among the luxury, the pomp and excess is a dramatic and poignant story about women who chose badly and have to pay a heavy price.
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Language
English
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The prequel to The Cartel, and set about 10 years earlier, The Power of the Dog introduces a brilliant cast of characters. Art Keller is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. Father Parada is a powerful and incorruptible Catholic priest. Callan is an Irish kid from Hell's kitchen who grows up to be a merciless hit man. And they are all trapped in the...
20) The last act
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Language
English
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Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers "a perfect piece of entertainment" (Steve Berry), a deliciously tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit that will keep readers riveted. Struggling stage actor Tommy Jump knows he has to stop chasing applause and start chasing greenbacks. But then he's offered the role of a lifetime: $150,000 for a six-month acting gig. With a newly pregnant fiancée depending on him, it's an opportunity he can't refuse,...
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