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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she?s hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets of any kind. She?s reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. But Gabriela?s latest job isn?t for some bamboozled billionaire, it?s for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off the map if they can?t come up with a lot of money fast....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Thai
Description
When Som and Bank meet for the first time in the sprawling metropolis of Bangkok, they are strangers. Bank doesn't know that Som is a hooker, and Som doesn't know Bank is a drug dealer. Soon they become partners, and the drug deals they make bring them a kind of wealth they have never known. With a taste for the highlife, they plan a deal that will make them rich beyond their wildest imagination. But they soon find the price they pay, may be way...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Paperback. edition.
Language
English
Description
An eyewitness account of the rise of Mexico's drug cartels during the first decades of the twenty-first century.
Looks at the extremely violent criminal drug cartels that have arisen in Mexico, maintaining that the phenomenon has in fact turned into a broad-based insurgency in support of drug traffic profits.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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...
6) Bloody tie
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
In this uncompromising vision of the gritty Korean underworld, a crystal meth dealer with a tragic past is forced to team up with a renegade cop to take down a powerful crime lord. Reminiscent of the Hong Kong action films of the 80's but full of the dark and unpredictable machismo of Korean cinema today, Bloody tie is a sinister and vicious film noir thriller.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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...
8) Superfly
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
With his sights set on retiring, a successful young drug dealer sets up one last big deal.
9) Superfly
Publisher
Columbia (Usa)
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
With his sights set on retiring, a successful young drug dealer sets up one last big deal.
10) Cold pursuit
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
An action thriller infused with irreverent humor that stars Liam Neeson as Nels Coxman, a family man whose quiet life with his wife is upended following the mysterious death of their son. Nels' search for justice turns into a vengeful hunt for Viking, a drug lord he believes is connected to the death. As one by one of Viking's associates 'disappear,' Nels goes from upstanding citizen to ice-cold vigilante, letting nothing, and no one, get in his way....
Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Palgrave Macmillan paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground where people will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to willing American consumers, including using armies of submarines that transport narcotics along the Central American coast, a network of secret tunnels used to smuggle tons of illegal drugs north, a no-fail system of transporting high-powered...
Author
Language
English
Description
"'My job is to go to places where people die. I pack my bags, talk to the survivors, write my stories, then go home to wait for the next catastrophe. I don't wait very long.' Journalist Patricia Evangelista came of age in the aftermath of a street revolution that forged a new future for the Philippines. Three decades later, in the face of mounting inequality, the nation discovered the fragility of its democratic institutions under the regime of strongman...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twenty-one-year-old Hardy 'Hardly' Reed--good-natured, easygoing, usually stoned--is drifting through life. A minimum-wage scare actor at an amusement park, he avoids unnecessary effort and unrealistic ambitions. Then one day he notices two children, around six or seven, sitting all alone on a bench. Hardly checks if they're okay and sees injuries on both children. Someone is hurting these kids. He reports the incident to Child Protective Service....
14) Habit
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A street smart party girl gets mixed up in a violent drug deal and finds a possible way out by masquerading as a Nun.
Author
Series
Largo recorrido volume 40
Publisher
Periférica
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Con un lenguaje que mezcla la violencia y la poesía, esta novela negra narra la vida de los mafiosos y los narcos mexicanos y su relación con el mundo exterior en medio de una epidemia. La acción acontece durante una sola jornada, en la que una mujer deseada, La Tres Veces Rubia, se encuentra con El Alfaqueque, un hombre quien encarna todos los miedos y contradicciones y cuyas palabras parecen sanar todo. Los temas de la tragedia, la redención,...
16) Cold pursuit
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
When a snowplow driver learns that his son was killed by a drug cartel, he seeks revenge for his son's murder.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gucci Mane began writing his memoir in a maximum-security federal prison. Released in 2016, he emerged radically transformed. He was sober, smiling, focused, and positive -- a far cry from the Gucci Mane of years past. Born in rural Bessemer, Alabama, Radric Delantic Davis became Gucci Mane in East Atlanta, where the rap scene is as vibrant as the dope game. His name was made as a drug dealer first, rapper second. His mixtapes and street anthems helped...
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A real-life Breaking Bad for the psychedelic set, THE SUNSHINE MAKERS reveals the untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of the 1960s American drug counterculture. United in a utopian mission to save the planet through the consciousness-raising power of LSD called orange sunshine, this film documents their story as they tried to stay one step ahead of the feds.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You’ve heard of Pablo Escobar, Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, and Rafael Caro Quintero. Their names conjure ghoulish images of bloody streets, white powder, bundles of weed, and a particular flavor of machismo unique to ruthless druglords. But what of the drugladies, las narcas? For the first time, investigative reporter Deborah Bonello takes you behind the curtain to introduce the women at the helm of organized crime south of the US-Mexico border....
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