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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When private detective Agatha Raisin comes across a severed leg in a roadside hedge, it looks like she is about to become involved in a particularly gruesome murder. Looks, however, can be deceiving, as Agatha discovers when she is employed to investigate a case of industrial espionage at a factory where nothing is quite what it seems. The factory mystery soon turns to murder and a bad-tempered donkey turns Agatha into a national celebrity, before...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jeffrey Archer's Hidden in Plain Sight is the second novel featuring Detective William Warwick, by the master storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles. William Warwick has been promoted to Detective Sergeant, but his promotion means that he, along with the rest of his team, have been reassigned to the Drugs Squad. They are immediately tasked with apprehending Ahmed Rashedi, a notorious drug dealer, who operates...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she's hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets of any kind. She's reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. But Gabriela's latest job isn't for some bamboozled billionaire, it's for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off the map if they can't come up with a lot of money fast....
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
Controversial details regarding the capture of notorious criminal drug trafficker Joaquín Guzmán Loera reveal how officials handled the investigation, while shedding further light on the political implications attached to the case. Mexico, 216pp.
6) Savages
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2012], c2010
Language
English
Description
Running a lucrative marijuana operation in Laguna Beach, sometime environmentalist Ben and mercenary Chon confront a dangerous adversary in the Mexican Baja cartel, which kidnaps their playmate and confidante Ophelia, compelling the duo to plot ingenious negotiations.
7) Borne
Author
Series
Borne novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"'Am I a person?' Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. 'Yes, you are a person,' Rachel tells him. 'But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.' In a ruined, nameless city of the future, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm, the Company, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly, and broke free....
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...
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....
10) The shooters
Author
Series
Presidential Agent novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A key DEA agent has been kidnapped by drugrunners. As much as the news angers Presidential Agent Castillo, he thinks there’s no way he could get permission to rescue the man. But Castillo’s wrong—the President himself orders Castillo to do anything it takes to bring back the agent...anything except get caught.
11) Jack's run
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2007, ©2005
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by drug czar Alonzo Asnar and held hostage in Argentina, Jack and his sister Joanne attempt a daring escape while their parents, aided by some old friends, set out to rescue them.
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.
13) Deacon King Kong
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Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
Author
Series
Breaking Bad(TV series) volume 4
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Walter, a modest high school chemistry teacher, discovers a new purpose in life when he learns he has terminal cancer and turns to a life of crime using his chemical knowledge to provide for his family.
16) Bone Parish
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A new drug is sweeping through the streets of New Orleans--one made from the ashes of the dead. Wars are being fought over who will control the supply, and the demand is rising. While the various criminal factions collide, users begin to experience terrifying visions of the dead coming back to life...through them. Eisner Award-nominated author Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, The Empty Man) and illustrator Jonas Scharf team up for Bone Parish, a haunting...
17) Nowhere nice
Author
Series
Nick Reid novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The last time Nick Reid and his pal Desmond tangled with crazy meth-dealer Boudrot, Boudrot landed in jail and Nick and Desmond helped themselves to the several hundred grand in cash hidden in his trailer. Now Boudrot's made a jailbreak and escaped into the bayou. In pure spiteful nastiness, Boudrot is three cuts above your regular dime-a-dozen lowlife, and it's a sure bet he's out for revenge on everyone involved in last year's incident. Nick and...
18) Golden prey
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The man was smart and he didn't mind killing people. Welcome to the big leagues, Davenport. Lucas Davenport's first case as a U.S. Marshal sends him into uncharted territory, in the thrilling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Thanks to some very influential people whose lives he saved, Lucas is no longer working for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but for the U.S. Marshals Service, and with unusual scope. He gets...
19) Turn a blind eye
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"William Warwick, now a Detective Inspector, is tasked with a dangerous new line of work, to go undercover and expose crime of another kind: corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. His team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle appears to exceed his income. But as a personal relationship develops with a member of William's team, it threatens to compromise the whole investigation. Meanwhile,...
20) Scarface
Author
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Cuban immigrant Tony "Scarface" Montana finds wealth and power in Miami's cocaine empire.
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