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Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
102 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Few television shows have won critical acclaim on the level of Breaking Bad, perhaps because few series are as worth deep examination as Breaking Bad. Something about Walter White's struggle with his inner demons resonated with us. The idea that his foray into meth production was not merely a dalliance with darkness, but was actually a full-blown awakening intrigued us. And most of all, the idea that we came to have no respect for the protagonist...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 8 hr. 45 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tag: Based on the Wall Street Journal article entitled "It takes planning, caution to avoid being it" by Russell Adams. Originally released as a motion picture in 2018. A small group of former classmates organize an elaborate, annual game of tag that requires some to travel all over the country.
The Hangover: Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way...
503) Disappeared
Author
Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Four months ago Sara Zapata's best friend, Linda, disappeared from the streets of Juarez, and ever since Sara has been using her job as a reporter to draw attention to the girls who have been kidnapped by the criminals who control the city, but now she and her family are being threatened--meanwhile her younger brother, Emiliano, is being lured into the narcotics business by the promise of big money, and soon the only way for both of them to escape...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
CIA Agent Jack Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence when his mentor, Admiral James Greer becomes gravely ill. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of one of the president's friends, a prominent U.S. businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels. Caught in the crossfire, Ryan takes matters into his own hands.
506) Body broker
Author
Series
Publisher
Santa Fe Writer's Project
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a teenager disappears from an elite boarding school, local police throw the seemingly innocuous case to their neighborhood PI. Enter Jack Dixon: college dropout, ex-cop, and ex-cook. What should be a simple case quickly turns sour, pushing Jack into the path of Nordic biker cultists and vicious drug dealers. But the houseboat-dwelling PI is determined to find the truth - and the missing kid - even though his persistence leads him into a thorny...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 338 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A veteran journalist evaluates the state of the war over the Amazon, tracing the efforts of environmental activists, locals, and indigenous tribes to save the jungle from the dangers of loggers, drug lords, and corrupt politicians.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade. After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children--until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to...
509) Collateral
Language
English
Formats
Description
Max is a cab driver. For twelve years, faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he has long since forgotten--until tonight. When a drug cartel learns of their impending indictment by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness. Vincent is a contract killer. He has one night in L.A.--and five bodies are supposed to fall. Vincent hijacks Max and his cab, making Max collateral--an expendable...
510) Dakota
Author
Series
Publisher
The Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former foreign correspondent Lola Wicks is getting a little bored in Magpie, Montana, where she landed at a small local newspaper after being downsized from her job in Kabul. Then Judith Calf Looking, a local Blackfeet girl missing for several months, turns up dead in a snowbank with a mysterious brand on her forearm. The sheriff -- whose romantic relationship with Lola provides Magpie with its most delicious gossip in years -- thinks Judith probably...
511) Called to serve
Author
Publisher
Lazarus Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
627, 13 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
1a edición.
Physical Desc
396 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
The Colombian television journalist describes her relationship with cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar, how she became his witness of choice for subduing people, and how she was silenced for twenty years before fleeing for America in 2006.
Virginia Vallejo era la presentadora de televisión más importante de Colombia. Cortejada por multimillonarios tradicionales, conoció en 1982 a Pablo Escobar, un misterioso político de treinta y tres años...
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...
514) Heartbreaker
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
515) The border
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a border guard involved in drug smuggling along the Rio Grande, Charlie Smith has crossed the line many times. But when he decides to clean up his act and help unite an illegal woman with her baby, he runs afoul of his corrupt department, his greedy wife and a ruthless neighbor in this action-packed suspense-thriller.
516) Cartel land
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In the Mexican state of Michoacán Dr. José Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley, Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to stop Mexico's drug wars from seeping across our border. Heineman embeds himself n the heart of darkness...
519) Super troopers
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five Vermont state troopers are out to have a good time. Stationed in a remote area near the Canadian border, the troopers, avid pranksters have a knack for screwing up on the job. But when budget cuts in the town threaten their livelihood and pit them against arch-rival Spurbury P.D., the five friends try to straighten up and fly right. That is, until a dead body is discovered and a possible drug ring is unearthed. The super troopers spring into...
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The CEO of an international conglomerate sends two of his most regarded executives to investigate why shipments of cocaine are being hijacked and over cut somewhere on the supply chain.
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