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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Presents a searing investigation into the role of the drug trade in the black market for firearms, both within the U.S. and across the U.S.-Mexican border.
Guns and drugs are not often connected in our heated discussions of gun control-- but they should be. Grillo shows us this connection by following the market for guns in the Americas-- and how it has made the continent the most murderous on earth. He travels to gun manufacturers, strolls the aisles...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"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.
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English
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"The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the first time--a powerful, surprising memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life caught in the ruinous drug trade and beyond. Fans nationwide have fallen in love with Orange Is the New Black, the critically acclaimed and wildly popular Netflix show based on Piper Kerman's sensational...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Criminal That I Am is a defense attorney's account of the criminal justice system as seen through the prism of a particular case: her own. Jennifer Ridha is enlisted to defend Cameron Douglas in a federal drug trafficking case while he is incarcerated in a maximum-security prison under difficult, even dangerous, conditions. As media scrutiny and the pressures of Cameron's case mount and as Jennifer becomes increasingly transfixed by her charismatic...
6) American pain: how a young felon and his ring of doctors unleashed America's deadliest drug epidemic
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English
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"American Pain was the brainchild of Chris George, a 27-year-old convicted drug felon. The son of a South Florida home builder, Chris George grew up in ultra-rich Wellington, where Bill Gates, Springsteen, and Madonna kept houses. Thick-necked from weightlifting, he and his twin brother hung out with mobsters, invested in strip clubs, brawled with cops, and grinned for their mug shots. After the housing market stalled, a local doctor clued in the...
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Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads of Miami Vice and a Jimmy Buffett song. These irrepressible adventurers unloaded nearly a billion dollars worth of marijuana and hashish through the eastern seaboard's marshes. Then came their undoing: Operation Jackpot, one of the largest drug investigations ever and an opening volley in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs. In Jackpot, author Jason...
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Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The acclaimed investigative reporter and author of Confronting Collapse examines the global forces that led to 9/11 in this provocative exposé.
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon examines how such a conspiracy was possible through an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism-without which 9/11...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Amexica is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border-"a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither"-as the Norco-war escalates to a fever pitch there.
In 2009, after reporting from the border for many years, Ed Vulliamy traveled the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, from Tijuana to Matamoros, a journey through a kaleidoscopic landscape...
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
When Kentucky blueblood Drew Thornton parachuted to his death in September 1985-carrying thousands in cash and 150 pounds of cocaine-the gruesome end of his startling life blew open a scandal that reached to the most secret circles of the US government. The story of Thornton and "The Company" he served, and the lone heroic fight of State Policeman Ralph Ross against an international web of corruption, is one of the most portentous tales of the twentieth...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In his own words, real-life American gangster Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Determined to break the Italian mafia's monopoly over drug smuggling in New York, Frank cut out middlemen and began smuggling heroin into the United States directly from his source in Vietnam using the coffins of dead American soldiers. Making $1 million per day from...
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Publisher
J. Wiley & Sons Canada
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The definitive book about the explosive Rizzuto crime family.
On May 5, 1981, three rebellious members of New York's Bonanno crime family were gunned down in a Brooklyn social club. One of the gunmen was Vito Rizzuto, a man who would rise to the top of the underworld in Canada and then expand his reign across continents to become a global super boss.
The Sixth Family, now revised and updated, reveals the hidden history of the rise of the Rizzuto...
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