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Author
Series
House of the scorpion volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
411 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Description
In 2137, fourteen-year-old Matt is stunned to learn that, as the clone of El Patrón, he is expected to take over as leader of the corrupt drug empire of Opium, where there is also a hidden cure for the ecological devastation faced by the rest of the world.
Author
Series
Jess O'Hara novels volume 2
Formats
Description
While helping a relative find his missing daughter, Jesse O'Hara, aided by her near photographic memory and dogged perseverance, antagonizes the Ireland's most dangerous drug kingpin, and when she doesn't backoff and other people turn up dead, she must solve this case before she ends up six feet under.
63) Super fly
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004, c1972
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Priest is a cocaine dealer who is just smart enough to know that there's no real future in dealing coke, and makes a proposal to his partner Eddie that would leave them with a million dollar profit each. But Scatter, the dealer who set Priest up in the cocaine trade, is both unwilling and unable to sell them that much product. As Priest looks for a new source for his big score, one of his underlings, Fat Freddie is picked up by the police. Freddie...
64) Fearless
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
315 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Hoping to destroy a drug cartel operating south of the border, DEA agent Rodrigo Ramirez disguises himself as an itinerant laborer to take a job on Gloryanne Barnes' farm, but his growing attraction to his fiercely independent employer could endanger his mission.
66) Superfly
Publisher
Columbia (Usa)
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With his sights set on retiring, a successful young drug dealer sets up one last big deal.
Author
Publisher
Kaylie Jones Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"For the last fifty years, the Colombian drug cartels, various insurgent groups, and the government have fought over the control of the drug traffic, in the process destroying vast stretches of the Amazon, devastating Indian communities, and killing tens of thousands of homesteaders caught in the middle of the conflict. Inspired by these events, Jaime Manrique's sixth novel, Like This Afternoon Forever, weaves in two narratives: the shocking story...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"When his addict son gets in deep with his dealer, it takes everything Raymond Mathis has to bail him out of trouble one last time. Frustrated by the slow pace and limitations of the law, Raymond decides to take matters into his own hands. After a workplace accident left him out of a job and in pain, Denny Rattler has spent years chasing his next high. He supports his habit through careful theft, following strict rules that keep him under the radar...
70) The exiled
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Back in the 1980s, Wes Raney was an ambitious New York City narcotics detective with a growing drug habit of his own. While working undercover on a high-risk case, he made decisions that ultimately cost him not only his career but also his family. Disgraced, Raney fled-- but history is finally catching up to him. Now in his early forties, Raney is living in exile, the sole homicide investigator covering a two-hundred-mile stretch of desert in New...
Series
Criterion collection volume 971
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2019.
Formats
Description
The jaw-dropping set pieces fly fast and furious in these inventive action comedies, two smash hits that made Jackie Chan a worldwide icon of daredevil spectacle. The director/star/one-man stunt machine plays Ka-Kui, a Hong Kong police inspector whose methods are unorthodox; the phenomenal Maggie Cheung plays his much-put-upon girlfriend, May. Packed with astoundingly acrobatic fight choreography, epic explosions, charmingly goofball slapstick, and...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxv, 387 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as the Cornbread Mafia. Author James Higdon—whose relationship with Johnny Boone, currently a federal fugitive, made him the first journalist subpoenaed under the...
74) Beast of burden
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After a drug mule turns into an informant, he learns that his wife had been kidnapped by a cartel and must find a way to save her from the cockpit of his plane.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (613 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Even though his cancer's in remission, chemistry teacher turned meth maker Walter White still can't catch a break. His wife has filed for divorce, his DEA agent brother-in-law is out to bust him, and a Mexican cartel just wants him dead. But with his family's future still at stake, Walt cooks up a deal that will make him a fortune, a scheme with a terrible price.
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A haunting horror fairytale set against the backdrop of Mexico's devastating drug wars; follows a group of orphaned children who are unexpectedly given three magical wishes. As they run from the cartel that murdered their parents and the ghosts that haunt them, they must decide how to use this special gift to save their own lives and the people they love.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
[335] pages ; 25 cm
Description
"The Mexican village of San Patricio is being menaced by a bizarre, cultish drug cartel infamous for its brutality. As the townspeople try to defend themselves by forming a vigilante group, the Mexican army and police have their own ways of fighting back. Into this volatile mix of forces for good and evil (and sometimes both) steps an unlikely broker for peace: Timothy Riordan, an American missionary priest who must decide whether to betray his vows...
79) Wait until dark
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A photographer unwittingly smuggles a doll stuffed with heroin into New York City. His recently blinded wife, alone in their apartment, is first terrorized by hired crooks, and then by the psychopathic Roat, in search of the doll.
80) The marksman
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jim is a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border. But his peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel.
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