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81) Philly girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Overcoming a troubled childhood filled with abuse, secrets, and lies, Sarita Powell, over the course of one summer, finds herself in a position of power, strength, and respect as Philadelphia's drug kingpin.
82) Die hard 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
On a snowy Christmas Eve in Washington D.C., a team of terrorists has seized a major international airport, and now holds thousands of holiday travellers hostage. The terrorists, a renegade band of crack military commandos led by a murderous rogue officer, have come to rescue a drug lord from justice. They've prepared for every contingency - except John McClane, an off-duty cop seized by a feeling of deadly déjà vu.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Sayon Hughes longs to escape the volatile Bristol neighborhood known as Ends, the tight-knit but sometimes lawless world in which he was raised, and forge a better life with Shona, the girl he's loved since grade school. With few paths out, he is drawn into dealing drugs alongside his cousin, the unpredictable but fiercely loyal Cuba. Sayon is on the cusp of making a clean break when an altercation with a rival dealer turns deadly and an expected...
84) MacBeth
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in the 1970s in a run-down, industrial town, a police force struggles to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, the chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople, but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom, a master of manipulation named Hecate, has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way.
85) Saint Death
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the illicit human and drug trade at the US-Mexican border."--
Arturo scrapes by living in Anapra living odd jobs and staying out of sight. His friend Faustino joined one of the drug gangs. He stole money form the gang to send his girlfriend and her baby into the U.S.-- and he wants Arturo's help replacing the money before the gang kills him. Looming over Arturo's story, and Juarez itself, is Santa Muerte-- Saint Death, watching impassively...
86) Learning to fly
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
87) The system
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On December 6, 1993, when a drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead on the lawn outside her mother's house in South Central Los Angeles, a heroin addict fingers two drug dealers as the killers, but only one of them is guilty.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
J.D. Jessup, having left his painful past and music for a job on a Tucson, Arizona, organic farm, unknowingly unleashes a chain of deadly events after he decides to hide a beautiful illegal alien, who was on the verge of death, instead of calling Border Patrol.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Drug transporters. Money launderers. Killers. Street drug vendors. Weapons traffickers. Kidnappers. Extortionists. VICE journalist Deborah Bonello reports from the trenches in this first-ever in-depth exploration of the hidden power women wield in Latin American drug cartels"--
92) Braven
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When Joe and his father arrive at their remote hunting cabin, they're hoping for a quiet weekend. What they find is a stash of heroin, hidden in the cabin by drug traffickers. When the criminals suddenly descend upon the cabin, Joe and his father must make a kill-or-be-killed stand for survival.
Author
Series
Joe the bouncer volume 2
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Ex-black-ops-specialist-turned-strip-club-bouncer Joe Brody has a new qualification to add to his resume: an alliance of New York City's mob bosses has deemed him its "sheriff." In the straight world, when you "see something" you "say something" to the law. In the bent world, they call Joe. Still reeling from a particularly difficult operation, and having plummeted back into the drug and alcohol addiction that got him kicked out of the military as...
94) Philadelphia
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Dontay had it rough growing up in the projects with a mother who forced him to become a man at the young age of fifteen. His father was a rolling stone, having multiple children with many women. He always fought for his fathers attention, until taking his spot became more important than gaining his love. Now Dontay is the leader of one of the most successful and most feared drug organizations in the city of Philadelphia. From the outside looking in,...
95) Powder Blu
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Introduced by her boyfriend to the more sophisticated aspects of the drug trade, Blu confronts a difficult choice when she falls in love with a mysterious Haitian who tempts her to take over the operation.
Author
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.
99) Alien research
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When rumors of a new super-drug surface, the FBI comes to Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini for help. It becomes quickly apparent that the drug is merely the tip of a deadly iceberg and a much more insidious plan is underway involving Titan Security, Gaultier Enterprises, and YatesCorp. As newly discovered A-Cs and hybrids begin to surface, each with expanded and deadly talents, more and more signs point to a new evil genius who's using the A-Cs and their...
Author
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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