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Author
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
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
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...
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
Author
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.
Author
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...
6) 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...
7) 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...
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Language
English
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Description
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...
12) No way back
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a chance encounter with a stranger in a hotel results in murder, Wendy Gould, framed for the crime and desperate to clear her name, forms an unlikely alliance with the only witness--a woman who knows a shocking secret that could get them both killed.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Teresa Mendoza rises from the illiterate girlfriend of a pilot employed by the drug lords to the top of the male-dominated world of drug trafficking following the murder of her lover, in a novel based on actual events.
14) 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
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Even though his cancer's in remission, chemistry teacher turned meth maker Walter White still can't catch a break. His wife has filed for divorce, his DEA agent brother-in-law is out to bust him, and a Mexican cartel just wants him dead. But with his family's future still at stake, Walt cooks up a deal that will make him a fortune, a scheme with a terrible price.
16) Sicario
Author
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A female FBI agent joins a team fighting against Mexican drug cartels.
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