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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"También de este lado hay sueños. 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 favorite books in her store. And then...
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Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction
Named on Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years, Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015—Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year—Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015—Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the Year—Slate.com's 10 Best Books of...
Named on Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years, Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015—Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year—Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015—Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the Year—Slate.com's 10 Best Books of...
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Pike Logan thrillers volume 5
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English
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"Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill are in Turkmenistan with a top-secret antiterrorist unit when Jennifer gets a call from her brother, Jack. Working on an investigative report into the Mexican drug cartels, Jack Cahill has unknowingly gotten caught between two rival groups. His desperate call to his sister is his last before he's kidnapped. In their efforts to rescue Jack, Pike and Jennifer uncover a plot much more insidious than...
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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...
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Publisher
DEBOLS!LLO
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Los Sęor del Narco is a stark chronicle about the alarming complicities of high political, police, military and business circles with organized crime.
Los sęores del narco es una descarnada cr̤nica sobre las alarmantes complicidades de los altos c̕rculos pol̕ticos, policiacos, militares y empresariales con el crimen organizado.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Traces the stories of two American teens who abandoned a promising athletic future in favor of being trained as assassins for the Zetas drug cartel, describing the efforts of Mexican-born detective Robert Garcia to track down the boys and their leaders.
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Debolsillo
Pub. Date
[2014]
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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
Vintage International, Vintage Books, A Division of Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of his marriage, the Counselor makes a risky decision to delve 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.
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Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Este libro forma parte del largo recorrido period̕stico de Anabel Herǹndez en su incesante b︢sqeuda por entender el complejo imperio del crimen organizado y los c̀rteles de la droga en M̌xico, los cuales desde hace ďcadas tienen sumida a la naci̤n en una espiral de violencia en la que todos los d̕as son explotadas, desaparecidas o asesinadas decenas de personas inocentes, muchas de ellas del sexo femenino" -- Page [4] of cover.
19) El último narco
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Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Español
Description
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.
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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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