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Pub. Date
2011.
Description
El Narco draws the first definitive portrait of Mexico's drug cartels and how they have radically transformed in the last decade. El Narco is not a gang; it is a movement and an industry drawing in hundreds of thousands from bullet-ridden barrios to marijuana-growing mountains. And it has created paramilitary death squads with tens of thousands of men-at-arms from Guatemala to the Texas border.
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Wedding cake decorator and maid of honor in her beloved cousin's wedding, Piper Donovan must save the day when the impending nuptials are threatened by the disappearance of a bridesmaid, the discovery of a body on the wedding beach and the arrival of the lecherous, ex-drug dealer beast man.
63) Dead help
Author
Series
Apartment 4A volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Bree turned the knob of apartment 4A. The door was unlocked. It was empty inside. Andre looked around. "This is where we used to live."
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Sloan will go through hell and back for those she loves. And she does so, every single day. Caught up with the alluring Asa Jackson, a notorious drug trafficker, Sloan has finally found a lifeline to cling to, even if it's meant compromising her morals. She was in dire straits trying to pay for her brother's care until she met Asa. But as Sloan became emotionally and economically reliant on him, he in turn developed a disturbing obsession with her--one...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The exclusive inside story of the lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapo - the world's most wanted drug kingpin who evaded capture for more than a decade. A cinematic crime story following the relentless investigative work of Cole Merrell and his team unfolds at breakneck speed, taking the reader behind the scenes of one of the most sophisticated and dangerous counter-narcotics operations in the history of the United States...
66) Breck's Quandary
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Living in a remote mountain ski town called Quandary, Sheriff Breckenridge "Breck" Dyer has a lot of problems. The sheriff's department is broke. He's down to one deputy. The cell phones barely work and he can't even afford a decent patrol car. Seems like the city council keeps cutting and gutting his budget every time he turns around. But things can get worse and they do. A Mexican drug cartel called Los Equis sends two men to scout out the high...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 28
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Description
Teresa Mendoza's boyfriend is a drug smuggler who the narcos of Sinaloa, Mexico, call "the king of the short runway," because he can get a plane full of coke off the ground in three hundred yards. But in a ruthless business, life can be short, and Teresa even has a special cell phone that Guero gave her along with a dark warning. If that phone rings, it means he's dead, and she'd better run, because they're coming for her next. Then the call comes......
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
While DI Nikki Galena tries fulfill her father's dying request to "find Eve", a dead drug dealer is found in an abandoned airfield that locals say is haunted. The trail of both mysteries lead to a shocking discovery that puts Nikki and her team in mortal danger.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Irvine Welsh returns to Edinburgh, the home of Trainspotting and so many of his novels since, with a new novel featuring one of his most iconic and beloved characters 'Juice' Terry Lawson that's thick on the Scottish brogue, heavy on the filth and masterful in its comedic timing. A Decent Ride sees Irvine Welsh back in Edinburgh, this time with one of his most compelling and popular characters front and center: the rampaging force of nature that...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is a member of the Zeta drug cartel that now controls what was once Miriam's quiet hometown of San Fernando, near the U.S. border. Having dyed her hair...
71) The short and tragic life of Robert Peace: a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League
Author
Pub. Date
c2014.
Description
A biography of a young African-American man who escaped the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets when he returned home.
73) Caught
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney, locked up on charges of marijuana possession, has escaped his cell and sprinted to the highway. There, he's picked up by his sister's friend and taken to a strip bar, where he survives his first night on the run. Evading the cops isn't his only objective. Slaney also wants to track down his old partner, Hearn, and get back into the drug business. As Slaney makes his fugitive journey across Canada, he adopts numerous...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"The definitive account of the rise and fall of the ultimate narco, "El Chapo," from the New York Times reporter whose coverage of his trial went viral Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is the most legendary of Mexican narcos. As leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, he was one of the most dangerous men in the world. His fearless climb to power, his brutality, his charm, his taste for luxury, his penchant for disguise, his multiple dramatic prison escapes, his...
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Dale Denton is a lazy court-process clerk and stoner. He likes to visit his equally lazy dealer Saul Silver. His purpose is to purchase weed, specifically, a rare new strain called Pineapple Express. Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop and the city's most dangerous drug lord. He panics and drops his roach of Pineapple Express at the scene. Dale goes back to Saul to find out if the weed is so rare that it can be traced back to...
76) The heat
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Uptight FBI agent Sarah Ashburn (Bullock) and foul-mouthed Boston cop Shannon Mullins (McCarthy) couldn't be more incompatible. But when they join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected... buddies.
77) Hard rain
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster. In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others. Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
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.
79) Redback
Author
Series
John Marquez crime novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Description
June 1989. Tijuana, US-Mexico border. A DEA undercover operation goes horribly wrong and informant Billy Takado lies dead, gunned down at point-blank range. The fallout costs Special Agent John Marquez his DEA career. Eighteen years later, Marquez is working for California's Department of Fish and Game when the past returns. The FBI is targeting the shadowy empire of drug cartel moneyman Emrahain Stoval. Frustrated by their inability to charge and...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A myth-busting, 100-year history of the Mexican drug trade that reveals how an industry founded by farmers and village healers became dominated by cartels and kingpins. The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white and brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. In this first comprehensive history of the trade, historian Benjamin T. Smith tells the real...