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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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 one day a man enters the shop to browse...
Author
Language
English
Description
Journalist Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, 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, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin -- to the veins of people across the United States. Communities where heroin had never been seen before -- from Charlotte, North Carolina and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn.
12) The ninth day
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
x, 397 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
A prisoner of Mexico's most feared cartel, biochemist Emma Caldridge discovers a flesh-eating toxin that causes a horrible death within nine days of exposure, forcing her to race against time to find a cure to save herself and stop the cartel from spreading their lethal product across America.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eddie Gato Wolfe is a young, impetuous member of the Wolfe family of Texas gun-runners that goes back generations. Increasingly unfulfilled by his minor role in family operations and eager to set out on his own, Eddie crosses the border to work security for a major Mexican drug cartel led by the ruthless La Navaja. Eddie falls for a mysterious woman named Miranda, whom he learns too late is the property of an intimate member of La Navaja's organization....
Author
Series
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since President Calderón declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexicans have been murdered. Drug money is now Mexico's single largest source of income. Gibler travels across Mexico and slips behind the frontlines to talk with people who live in towns under assault on the lawless frontiers of the drug war.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 261 pages ; 16 unnumbered leaves of plates, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A courageous young journalist takes his readers deep inside the hunt for the most powerful, feared, and charismatic drug lord in the world---Mexico's Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman---and tells the full story of the drug trade over the past thirty years.
Author
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st Vintage International ed.
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
On the eve of his marriage, the Counselor makes a risky decision to dealve 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.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Lydia Quixano Pérez vive en Acapulco, México, donde lleva su librería. Tiene un hijo, Luca, el amor de su vida, y un maravilloso esposo que es periodista. Y aunque la vida en Acapulco comienza a agrietarse debido a los cárteles de la droga, su vida es confortable. Un día llega un hombre a la librería y compra cuatro libros, entre los que se encuentran dos de las obras favoritas de Lydia, que piensa que nunca va a vender. Javier es erudito,...
19) La reina del sur
Author
Physical Desc
542 pages ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
When she discovers that her boyfriend Guero, a Mexican drug smuggler, has been killed by rivals and that she is the next target, Teresa Mendoza must give up her old life and become a member of a dark and deadly world in order to survive.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 339 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A global investigative correspondent for the New York Times describes the true story of how a mother living in the once-quiet Mexican village of San Fernando became a vigilante against the Zeta cartel that murdered her daughter.
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