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English
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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
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.
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Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Español
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Details the rise of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who took over the Sinaloa cartel in the 1990s, and draws on interviews with officials, drug traffickers, soldiers, and Guzman's associates to examine his exploits and the search for him.
6) The Reunion
Publisher
World Wrestling Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After the death of her father, a daughter is charged with bringing his three sons back together: Sam, a hardened cop currently on suspension; Leo, a loud-mouthed overbearing bail bondsman; and Douglas, a 20-year old thief fresh out of prison. When Leo discovers the con he bonded for a lot of money for is suspected of kidnapping one of the wealthiest men in the country, he convinces his two brothers to join him on what will become a dangerous adventure....
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.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The definitive account of the rise and fall of the ultimate narco, "El Chapo," from the New York Times reporter whose coverage of his trial went viral Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is the most legendary of Mexican narcos. As leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, he was one of the most dangerous men in the world. His fearless climb to power, his brutality, his charm, his taste for luxury, his penchant for disguise, his multiple dramatic prison escapes, his...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
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Based on the true life of drug trafficker Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who went from nothing to become the most powerful drug lord in Mexico known as 'El Señor de los Cielos' when he got a fleet of airplanes to traffic drugs into the United States of America.
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Publisher
Atria Books
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 around...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is a member of the Zeta drug cartel that now controls what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of San Fernando, near the U.S. border. Having dyed her hair...
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Publisher
Harpercollins Espanol
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Una combinación de las películas Manhunt, Killing Pablo y Zero Dark Thirty, esta sensacional obra de misterio, y de alta tecnología de investigación, de Andrew Hogan y Douglas Century es una crónica impresionante de un capítulo en la guerra contra las drogas en el siglo veinte: la experiencia exclusiva de un agente federal estadounidense y sus ocho años de cacería tras El Chapo -- el capo de la droga más buscado del mundo, que evadió a la...
13) Armored
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Series
Joshua Duffy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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After losing part of his left leg, former bodyguard Joshua Duffy takes a job as a mall cop to support his family, but runs into an old friend who has a much more intriguing job offer, to join a mission into the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico to broker peace between the drug cartels in the region.
Joshua Duffy was a Close Protection Agent -- a professional bodyguard, and one of the world's elite operatives -- until his last mission in Lebanon. He...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Everything you did not know about the most searched-for drug lord in the world, told by the criminals who betrayed him. The trial of the man most sought-after by the US police: a review of his activities in the drug trade, his vengeance, and his connections with politicians and criminals. A severe, ruthless portrait of El Chapo Guzman in US court. Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul was one of the few journalists in the world who covered the whole trial of El...
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