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41) Doctor dealer
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1987]
Physical Desc
xx, 331 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Series
Publisher
KimStim
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Romanian
Description
Cristi is a young undercover cop who undergoes a crisis of conscience when he is pressured to arrest a teenager who offers hash to classmates. Not wanting to ruin the life of a young man he considers merely irresponsible, Cristi must either allow the arrest to weigh on his conscience or face censure by his serious superior, for whom the word 'conscience' has an entirely different meaning.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 350 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In Cocaine Nation, Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York, meeting Medellin hitmen, U.S. kingpins, Brazilian traffickers, and talking to soldiers and narcotics officers who fight the gangs and cartels. He traces cocaine's progress from legal "pick-me-up" to luxury product to global commodity, looks at legalization programs in countries such as Switzerland, and shows how America's anti-drugs...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning crime reporter describes how two high school honor-roll students used gang connections to loot pharmacies and sell narcotics through delivery drivers using location-based technology and even formed an alliance with the Mexican drug cartel headed by El Chapo, "--NoveList.
47) Rising Phoenix
Author
Series
Mark Beamon thrillers volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the thirteen-year crusade of federal prosecutor Bonnie Klapper and Department of Homeland Security Agent Romedio Viola, who worked together to bring down the Colombian cartel responsible for sixty percent of the cocaine entering the United States.
51) Born to darkness
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michelle "Mac" Mackenzie, a super-human "Greater-Than" with unique abilities, teams up with a former Navy SEAL Shane Laughlin to stop the spread of a highly addictive drug called Destiny, which gives anyone the same abilities as a "Greater-Than."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping price, and the buyer was Miguel Trevino, one of the leaders of the Zetas, Mexico's most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested that...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"MAD MEN MEETS THE WIRE IN THIS GRIPPING TRUE-CRIME MEMOIR BY A FORMER AGENT AT THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF NARCOTICS IN 1960s NEW YORK Before Nixon famously declared a "war on drugs, " there was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. New York City in the mid-1960s: The war in Vietnam was on the nation's tongue--but so is something else. Clandestine and chaotic, but equally ruthless, the agents of the Bureau were feared by the Mafia, dealers, pimps, prostitutes--anyone...
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Manufacturing just 50 grams of meth in China will earn you a death sentence. Timmy Choi just got caught making tons. Now he's in the custody of Captain Zhang, and has one chance to avoid execution: turn informant and help the cops bring down the powerful cartel he's been cooking for. Over the next 72 sleepless hours, the sting spins out of control, the line between duty and recklessness is blurred, and it becomes unclear who actually has the upper...
57) Takedown: a small-town cop's battle against the Hell's Angels and the nation's biggest drug gang
Author
Publisher
Forge/Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Jeff Buck thought he'd seen it all. Twenty years working undercover in the netherworld of drugs had left him burned out and grateful to assume the quiet job of police chief in the small town of Reminderville, Ohio. That is, until a simple domestic assault case turns out to have links to the murder of a drug runner in upstate New York and a syndicate smuggling billions of dollars in drugs across the U.S.- Canada border. As Buck reluctantly plunges...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 356 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of color plates : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Challenges mainstream understandings in a reassessment of the U.S.-Mexico border crisis that reveals an unprecedented rate of drug trafficking directly related to the opioid epidemic, outlining bipartisan recommendations for fighting cartels and strengthening national security.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alain Chanier is a dapper businessman from Marseilles, France. He's actually a drug lord working on a big score. He wants to sell millions of dollars worth of 89% pure heroin. Salvatore Boca is a small-time hood who is his potential buyer. Boca is being tailed by two undercover New York City narcotics police officers, James 'Popeye' Doyle and Buddy 'Cloudy' Russo. The more Popeye and Cloudy dig, the closer they get. Chanier agrees to an attempt on...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 256 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"DEA Agent Jack Riley tells the inside story of his 30-year hunt for the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, and reveals the true causes of the American opioid epidemic. Jack Riley, grandson of a Chicago cop known for using his fists, was born to be a drug warrior. Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, who farmed marijuana and opium poppies as a teenager in Mexico, was born to be a drug lord. Their worlds collided when Riley, a career special agent with...
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