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Author: Will Zubek Publisher: ISBN: 9781735623665 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Tony Winslow's never considered himself a huge Joe Cocker fan, but he does agree with the guy's most famous line: "I get by with a little help from my friends." It's how he escaped a life sentence in Mexico a few months back, when he took it upon himself-with a lot of help from his friends-to bring about some vigilante justice for some entitled punks from Orange County. But now Tony's friends are the ones who need help - like, a lot of it. They've somehow gotten themselves involved in a fledgling drug cartel made up of a bunch of meth-addled lunatics. They want out, but narcos generally aren't the kind of people who accept two-week notices. Once you're in, you're in for life. Only a crazy person would think otherwise, which is where Tony comes in. He owes his friends his freedom, so he'll do whatever it takes - trying his hand as a drug mule, undercover informant, and, eventually, cartel hit man - in order to bring things to a clean, merciful end. Here's a shocker: the ending isn't clean, nor is it merciful. And, along the way, Tony finds out that not everyone was ready to stop asking questions about that whole vigilante justice thing - and this might prove to be even more dangerous than any of his dealings with the cartel.
Author: Will Zubek Publisher: ISBN: 9781735623665 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Tony Winslow's never considered himself a huge Joe Cocker fan, but he does agree with the guy's most famous line: "I get by with a little help from my friends." It's how he escaped a life sentence in Mexico a few months back, when he took it upon himself-with a lot of help from his friends-to bring about some vigilante justice for some entitled punks from Orange County. But now Tony's friends are the ones who need help - like, a lot of it. They've somehow gotten themselves involved in a fledgling drug cartel made up of a bunch of meth-addled lunatics. They want out, but narcos generally aren't the kind of people who accept two-week notices. Once you're in, you're in for life. Only a crazy person would think otherwise, which is where Tony comes in. He owes his friends his freedom, so he'll do whatever it takes - trying his hand as a drug mule, undercover informant, and, eventually, cartel hit man - in order to bring things to a clean, merciful end. Here's a shocker: the ending isn't clean, nor is it merciful. And, along the way, Tony finds out that not everyone was ready to stop asking questions about that whole vigilante justice thing - and this might prove to be even more dangerous than any of his dealings with the cartel.
Author: Taylor Snoden Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781544165172 Category : Languages : en Pages : 230
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An inside true grit story of the Colombian, Peruvian and Bolivian underworld and several violent years before Pablo Escobar took charge of the cocaine narco trade. Escobar being far from the original of the heavy Cartel leaders during the seventies and early nine-teen eighties. There also existed a half dozen Gringo Cartels across South America. Mainly in Colombia and Bolivia. This is the story of one such gang and of the profits they gained and the terrible violence that they spread across two Continents. From their first flight in a mid-sized twin engine Cessna from the far away clandestine runways in Northern Colombia to the Bahamas with their first load of a thousand pounds of marijuana. Eventually the change to the far most lucrative business on the entire Continent. The Cocaine Trade. This is a story of a few high octane cocaine cowboys from Florida who decided to take their chances to possibly gain the vast fortunes that their Colombian counterparts were enjoying the fruits of. It is about an unlikely group of Gringos who teamed up to be a smuggling force to be reckoned with across all of Europe and the Americas in the late 1970's and early 1980's. While the getting was still there for those that do not divagate from danger or the violence that draw men of reckless blood to such environments.
Author: Wensley Clarkson Publisher: Ad Lib Publishers Ltd ISBN: 1913543919 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 254
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This is the extraordinary story of how Charlie Wilson – renowned as one of the leaders of the Great Train Robbery gang – turned his back on so-called traditional crime to become the underworld’s original narco by helping to mastermind a multi-billion dollar drugs network in partnership with the original cocaine cowboy, Pablo Escobar. Wilson secretly helped turn cocaine into the Western world’s number one recreational drug of choice. Secret Narco unravels the bullet riddled, never-before-told history of South Londoner Wilson’s cocaine empire and his forays into the deadliest killing fields of all: South America. Bestselling author Wensley Clarkson’s meticulously researched story features interviews with many of Wilson’s friends, family members and enemies on both sides of the law enforcement divide, as well as associates of Pablo Escobar. .br> Secret Narco also reveals the final, tragic circumstances behind Wilson and Escobar’s bloody deaths, and how their twisted ‘partnership’ proved that gangsters never rest in peace.
Author: Ioan Grillo Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408824337 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 333
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‘War’ is no exaggeration in discussing the bloodshed that has terrorized Mexico in the past decades. As rival cartels battle for control of a billion-dollar drug trade, the body count - 23,000 dead in five years - and sheer horror beggar the imagination of journalistic witnesses. Cartel gunmen have attacked schools and rehabilitation centers, and murdered the entire families of those who defy them. Reformers and law enforcement officials have been gunned down within hours of taking office. Headless corpses are dumped on streets to intimidate rivals, and severed heads are rolled onto dancefloors as messages to would-be opponents. And the war is creeping northward, towards the United States. El Narco is the story of the ultraviolent criminal organizations that have turned huge areas of Mexico into a combat zone. It is a piercing portrait of a drug trade that turns ordinary men into mass murderers, as well as a diagnosis of what drives the cartels and what gives them such power. Veteran Mexico correspondent Ioan Grillo traces the gangs from their origins as smugglers to their present status as criminal empires. The narco cartels are a threat to the Mexican government - and their violence has now reached as far as North Carolina. El Narco is required reading for anyone concerned about one of the most important news stories of the decade.
Author: Jason Ruiz Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477328211 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 356
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Exploring representations of Latinx people from Scarface to Narcos, this book examines how pop culture has framed Latin America as the villain in America’s long and ineffectual War on Drugs. If there is an enemy in the War on Drugs, it is people of color. That is the lesson of forty years of cultural production in the United States. Popular culture, from Scarface and Miami Vice to Narcos and Better Call Saul, has continually positioned Latinos as an alien people who threaten the US body politic with drugs. Jason Ruiz explores the creation and endurance of this trope, its effects on Latin Americans and Latinx people, and its role in the cultural politics of the War on Drugs. Even as the focus of drug anxiety has shifted over the years from cocaine to crack and from methamphetamines to opioids, and even as significant strides have been made in representational politics in many areas of pop culture, Latinx people remain an unshakeable fixture in stories narrating the production, distribution, and sale of narcotics. Narcomedia argues that such representations of Latinx people, regardless of the intentions of their creators, are best understood as a cultural front in the War on Drugs. Latinos and Latin Americans are not actually America’s drug problem, yet many Americans think otherwise—and that is in no small part because popular culture has largely refused to imagine the drug trade any other way.
Author: Malcolm Beith Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN: 0802196225 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 288
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“Malcolm Beith risked life and limb to tell the inside story of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Loera, Mexico’s notorious drug capo.” —George W. Grayson, author of Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State? The dense hills of Sinaloa, Mexico, were home to the most powerful drug lord since Pablo Escobar: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Guzman was among the world’s ten most wanted men and also appeared on Forbes magazine’s 2009 billionaire list. With his massive wealth, his army of professional killers, and a network of informants that reached into the highest levels of government, catching Guzman was once considered impossible Newly isolated by infighting amongst the cartels, and with Mexican and DEA authorities closing in, El Chapo was vulnerable as never before. Newsweek correspondent Malcolm Beith had spent years reporting on the drug wars and followed the chase with full access to senior officials and exclusive interviews with soldiers and drug traffickers in the region, including members of Guzman’s cartel. The Last Narco combines fearless reporting with the story of El Chapo’s legendary rise from a poor farming family to the “capo” of the world’s largest drug empire. “The Last Narco gracefully captures the heroic struggle of those who dare to stand up to the cartels, and the ways those cartels have tragically corrupted every aspect of Mexican law enforcement.” —Laura Bickford, producer, Traffic
Author: Lili Wright Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0399175172 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 466
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Taut, acidly witty, menacingly erotic, and often absolutely terrifying: this is a literary thriller of propulsive force that introduces a powerful storyteller. *An Edgar Finalist for Best First Novel *Semifinalist for the 2017 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award It begins when a meth-addicted grave robber unearths the death mask of Montezuma, setting off a violent struggle for its possession. There is the drug lord who employs him, who would kill for that mask. There is the expat American collector, sinister and possibly mad. There is the greatly respected curator, who for a fee will provide provenances for his country’s looted artifacts, and his long-suffering housekeeper, a deeply religious lesbian in a culture of machismo, who despises her patron. And there is the looter himself, who has stolen the mask and is now running for his life. Above all, there is Anna Ramsey, an American with a history of bad choices, who has hidden behind a mask all her adult life. A deeply wounded woman, Anna knows that masks protect and conceal. Anna is a heroine for our times, as she searches for the courage to remove her mask and show her true face.
Author: Teresa Fernandez Ulloa Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443862339 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 615
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This book addresses contemporary discourses on a wide variety of topics related to the ideological and epistemological changes of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, and the ways in which they have shaped the Spanish language and cultural manifestations in both Spain and Hispanic America. The majority of the chapters are concerned with ‘otherness’ in its various dimensions; the alien Other – foreign, immigrant, ethnically different, disempowered, female or minor – as well as the Other of different sexual orientation and/or ideology. Following Octavio Paz, otherness is expressed as the attempt to find the lost object of desire, the frustrating endeavour of the androgynous Plato wishing to embrace the other half of Zeus, who in his wrath, tore off from him. Otherness compels human beings to search for the complement from which they were severed. Thus a male joins a female, his other half, the only half that not only fills him but which allows him to return to the unity and reconciliation which is restored in its own perfection, formerly altered by divine will. As a result of this transformation, one can annul the distance that keeps us away from that which, not being our own, turns into a source of anguish. The clashing diversity of all things requires the human predisposition to accept that which is different. Such a predisposition is an expression of epistemological, ethical and political aperture. The disposition to co-exist with the different is imagined in the de-anthropocentricization of the bonds with all living realms. And otherness is, in some way, the reflection of sameness (mismidad). The other is closely related to the self, because the vision of the other implies a reflection about the self; it implies, consciously or not, a relationship with the self. These topics are addressed in this book from an interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing arts, humanities and social sciences.
Author: Everardo Torrez Publisher: Arte Publico Press ISBN: 9781611922301 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 180
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Nando Flores sits in El Loro bar drinking his complimentary bottle of Carta Blanca beer waiting to answer his summons from Mexicali Rose. When she appears with her face hidden behind the large shield of black sunglasses, Flores already knows what to expect. ñWhat would you say if I told you that I had the ultimate score lined up?î she asks, catapulting Flores into a journey that will change ? and possibly end ? his life. Mexicali Rose knows that Flores cannot reject her offer, not when he is desperate to escape his career of smuggling cars, drugs, and people for meager bundles of dollar bills. When Mexicali RoseÍs instructions lead him to Xiomara, a brave and puzzling woman willing to pay him one hundred thousand dollars to lead her safely to Ciudad Juàrez, Flores knows he will pay for his decision. With tires spinning, Flores and Xiomara struggle to traverse the sparsely inhabited desert all the while trying to evade the henchmen of two rival drug cartels.
Author: Jesse Fink Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538155583 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 593
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For a quarter century, Luis Antonio Navia worked as a high-level cocaine transporter for all of the major Colombian and Mexican drug cartels, including Pablo Escobar’s Medellín Cartel, and flooded the United States and Europe with cocaine before his dramatic arrest in Venezuela in 2000 during the 12-nation Operation Journey. The story of Navia’s rise, fall, takedown, imprisonment, and redemption is expertly researched and told by acclaimed biographer Jesse Fink, who has gathered interviews with Navia, Navia’s family, and a dozen law-enforcement agents in the United States and Great Britain from agencies such as the DEA, ICE and Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise (now Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs). Told in vivid detail, this true crime story will captivate the reader from start to finish.
Author: Will Zubek
Author: Will Zubek
Author: Taylor Snoden
Author: Wensley Clarkson
Author: Ioan Grillo
Author: Jason Ruiz
Author: Malcolm Beith
Author: Lili Wright
Author: Teresa Fernandez Ulloa
Author: Everardo Torrez
Author: Jesse Fink