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Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Formats
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"--
Author
Series
Dusky MacMorgan adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ex-Navy SEAL Dusky MacMorgan survived a military hell only to find it again where he least expects it--as a fisherman trolling the Gulf stream in his thirty-foot clipper. His new life is shattered when a psychotic pack of drug runners turns the turquoise waters red with the blood of his beloved family. Armed with an arsenal so hot it could blow the Florida coast sky-high, he's tracking the goons responsible--right into the intimate circle of a corrupt...
63) Coffy
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Coffy, a young nurse, takes vengeance on the powerful drug ring that destroyed her younger sister's life.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, black and white. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A pilot flying for drug smugglers looks the other way until his conscience is tweaked by a beautiful woman he has misused. Veronica Lake stars as the antihero's girlfriend.
65) Target engaged
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
If the training doesn't kill them, their passion may but Kyle Reeves and Carla Anderson blast right in. Show no fear. Have no fear. Then they get the call. The most powerful drug-smuggling ring in Venezuela needs a takedown, and Delta's newest team leaps into the deep jungle to deliver. Giving their all? Not a problem. Giving their hearts? That takes a new level of courage.
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.
67) Bull Mountain
Author
Series
Bull Mountain volume 1
Language
English
Description
The Godfather meets Daniel Woodrell in this Southern debut, a multigenerational saga of crime, family, and vengeance. Clayton Burroughs comes from a long line of outlaws. For generations, the Burroughs clan has made their home on Bull Mountain in North Georgia, running shine, pot, and meth over six state lines, virtually untouched by the rule of law. To distance himself from his family's criminal empire, Clayton took the job of sheriff in a neighboring...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Central America, a caravan of migrants seeking a better life heads north to the United States, as narco-traffickers move drugs and money back and forth across the same border. From Academy Award-nominated director Sebastian Junger and Emmy-winning producer Nick Quested, the film explores the depths of corruption plaguing Mexico and Central America.
69) Almost criminal
Author
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
285 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Charming, wealthy Randle Kennedy has a secret: he's British Columbia's most prolific producer of boutique marijuana. He's developed strains of B.C. Bud to please the most sophisticated palates and produce any desired effect, from a light contemplative buzz to the most mind-warping stone. His medical varieties offer relief for conditions ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's disease. Come legalization, he'll be the first on the market with marijuana's...
70) Betrayal
Author
Publisher
Hersilia
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A lawyer who has spent time in prison with Duca is found drowned in one of the Milanese canals. Duca is contacted by a friend of the dead lawyer to perform surgery on a woman who after the operation confesses that although she is due to marry a wealthy butcher, is really in love with another man, the friend of the lawyer. Shortly afterwards, she is killed together with her lover. Duca discovers that the two events are linked and starts to unravel...
71) The cartel
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"It's 2004. DEA agent Art Keller has been fighting the war on drugs for thirty years in a blood feud against Adán Barrera, the head of El Federación, the world's most powerful cartel, and the man who brutally murdered Keller's partner. Finally putting Barrera away cost Keller dearly--the woman he loves, the beliefs he cherishes, the life he wants to lead. Then Barrera gets out, determined to rebuild the empire that Keller shattered. Unwilling to...
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,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
For San Francisco's newest medical examiner, Dr. Jessie Teska, it was supposed to be a fresh start. A new job in a new city. A way to escape her own dark past. Instead she faces a chilling discovery when an opioid-overdose case contains hints of something more sinister. Jessie's superiors urge her to close the case, but as more bodies land on her autopsy table, she uncovers a constellation of deaths that point to an elaborate plot involving drug dealers...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Death isn't unexpected in a nursing home. But murder is. Freddy leads a life of little responsibility. His mother is dead, his sisters are far-flung across the globe, and he can't quite work up enough motivation to find himself a girlfriend. Freddy has been forced to place his beloved grandmother, now deep in dementia, in a nursing home. Freddy visits her often, cherishing and also hating the time he spends with the grandmother he always adored,...
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus with his older brother Alex, a college student and ex-gang member, high school senior Carlos is not ready to give up his wild ways until he meets a shy classmate named Kiara and becomes unwillingly involved in a drug ring.
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First HarperPerennial Modern Classics edition.
Physical Desc
366, 24 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his ill-fated pursuit of the American dream, Bob Dubois finds employment on a fishing boat off the Florida Keys where he becomes involved in a plot to smuggle two Haitians into Florida.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The FBI offers out-of-work actor Tommy Jump the role of a lifetime: Go undercover at a federal prison and befriend inmate Mitchell Dupree, a disgraced banker who knows the location of documents that can be used to bring down a drug cartel. The pay is $150,000 for a six-month gig--whether Tommy gets the documents or not. Using a false name and backstory, Tommy enters the prison and befriends Dupree. Soon he's overwhelmed by the enormity of his task...
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.
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