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Amexica : war along the borderline / by Vulliamy, Ed.(CARDINAL)384104;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-338) and index.Amexica is a street-level portrait 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 narco-war escalates to a fever pitch. In 2009, after reporting from the border for many years, journalist Ed Vulliamy traveled the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, from Tijuana to Matamoros, a kaleidoscopic landscape of corruption and all-out civil war, but also of beauty and joy and resilience. He describes in detail how the narco gangs work; the smuggling of people, weapons, and drugs back and forth across the border; middle-class flight from Mexico and an American celebrity culture that is feeding the violence; the interrelated economies of drugs and the maquiladora factories; and the ruthless, systematic murder of young women in Ciudad Juarez. Heroes, villains, and victims all come to life in this singular book.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Drug control; Drug control; Drug traffic; Drug traffic; Drug traffic; Narco-terrorism; Narco-terrorism;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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The dark art : my undercover life in global narco-terrorism / by Follis, Edward,author.(CARDINAL)408637; Century, Douglas,author.(CARDINAL)353568;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Case studies.; Follis, Edward.; United States. Drug Enforcement Administration; Drug control; Drug enforcement agents; Undercover operations;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Murder city : Ciudad Juárez and the global economy's new killing fields / by Bowden, Charles,1945-2014.(CARDINAL)521276; Cardona, Julián,1960-2020.(CARDINAL)484682; 1960-;
Cardona, JulianCiudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing for his life with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juarez's culture of violence will not only worsen, but inevitably spread north.
Subjects: Drug traffic; Narco-terrorism; Murder; Drug traffic; Narco-terrorism; Murder; Social history.;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Wolf boys : two American teenagers and Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel / by Slater, Dan,author.(CARDINAL)401949;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-342)."The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable. What’s it like to be an employee of a global drug-trafficking organization? And how does a fifteen-year-old American boy go from star quarterback to trained assassin, surging up the cartel corporate ladder? At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is the poster boy American teenager: great athlete, bright, handsome, and charismatic. But the streets of his border town of Laredo, Texas, are poor and dangerous, and it isn’t long before Gabriel abandons his promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the Mexican military. His younger friend Bart, as well as others from Gabriel’s childhood, join him in working for the Zetas, boosting cars and smuggling drugs, eventually catching the eye of the cartel’s leadership. Meanwhile, Mexican-born Detective Robert Garcia has worked hard all his life and is now struggling to raise his family in America. As violence spills over the border, Detective Garcia’s pursuit of the boys, and their cartel leaders, puts him face to face with the urgent consequences of a war he sees as unwinnable." --
Subjects: Cardona, Gabriel.; Garcia, Robert.; Zetas (Drug cartel); Drug traffic; Organized crime; Narco-terrorism; Drug traffic;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 17
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Age of blood : a SEAL Team 666 novel / by Ochse, Weston.(CARDINAL)543310;
"When a Senator's daughter is kidnapped by a mysterious group with ties to the supernatural . . . it's clearly a job for SEAL TEAM 666. As Triple Six gets involved, they discover links to the Zeta Cartel, a newly discovered temple beneath Mexico City, and a group known as Followers of the Flayed One. International politics, cross-border narco-terrorism, and an insidious force operating inside the team soon threaten to derail the mission. Forced to partner with several militant ex-patriots and a former Zeta hitman-turned-skinwalker, Triple Six is the world's only hope to stop the return of the Age of Blood"--
Subjects: Paranormal fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); United States. Navy. SEALs; Zetas (Drug cartel); Kidnapping; Narco-terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dealing death and drugs : the big business of dope in the U.S. and Mexico, an argument to end the prohibition of marijuana / by O'Rourke, Beto.(CARDINAL)822860; Byrd, Susannah Mississippi,1971-(CARDINAL)273706;
Includes bibliographical references.1350L
Subjects: Drug control; Drug legalization; Drug traffic; Marijuana industry; Marijuana industry; Narco-terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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There are no dead here : a story of murder and denial in Colombia / by Sánchez-Moreno, Maria McFarland,author.(CARDINAL)417809;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-305) and index.Prologue : land of smoke and mirrors -- Part I. Death : Medellín, Colombia, 1996-1998: The prophet ; Early warnings ; Deaths foretold ; For those who speak the truth -- Part II. The Hunt : Medellín, Colombia, 1998-1999: The investigators ; In plain sight ; "Things that can't be investigated" ; The enemy within -- Part III. Hope : Bogotá, Colombia, 2000-2008: Heroes ; The commanders' "friends" ; Close to the bone ; "I'm calling you from prison" ; Frame job ; Betrayal -- Part IV. Truth : Bogotá, 2008-2010: Confessions ; Inside the presidential palace ; Spies ; The end of an era ; The question stuck in their throats -- Afterword : peace?"There Are No Dead Here is the harrowing story of three ordinary Colombians who risked everything to reveal the collusion between the new mafia and much of the country's military and political establishment: Jesus Maria Valle, a human rights activist who was murdered for exposing a dark secret; Ivan Velasquez, a quiet prosecutor who took up Valle's cause and became an unlikely hero; and Ricardo Calderon, a dogged journalist who is still being targeted for his revelations. Their groundbreaking investigations landed a third of the country's Congress in prison and fed new demands for justice and peace that Colombia's leaders could not ignore"--
Subjects: Paramilitary forces; Drug traffic; Narco-terrorism; Civil-military relations;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Confessions of a cartel hit man / by Corona, Martin(Cartel hit man),author.(CARDINAL)416927; Rafael, Tony,author.(CARDINAL)484892;
Part one: Sorrow. The letter ; Posole ; The beach ; Gladiator school ; The ones that got away ; Power boosting ; Surenos don't stoop ; A chance in Hawaii ; Baby -- Part two: Education. Big D's tickets ; Circus circus ; Small fish, big ocean ; The first order of business ; Mainline ; I want to kill him ; The hole ; Plastic knives ; Real great dudes -- Part three: Profession. A big enterprise ; Bullet hoses ; The fat guy ; Getting it done right ; Respect ; Wasn't for her ; Bad karma ; Neglected business ; "Are you against us?" ; Out of my life."These are the true confessions of an assassin. Martin Corona started out life seemingly as American as a midcentury American kid could be. He was the son of a US marine, bouncing from one warm beach base to another. But the combination of an abusive father, ill-advised medication, and some bad choices before he was even a teenager led him into a brutal, murderous outlaw life. In and out of prison, Corona, aka 'Nite Owl,' soon came into contact with Sureños and the so-called Mexican Mafia. After having proved himself to be fearless and loyal, he joined an elite crew run by the Arellano Félix brothers, founders of the Tijuana drug cartel that dominated the cross-border drug trade and the associated bloody gang warfare for decades. Corona and his crew would leave their luxurious hideout in Mexico, cross the border whenever they wished, kill whoever needed to be killed, and often return to their "office" the same day. Special Agent of the California Department of Justice Steve Duncan pursued the arrest of Martin Corona for years and wrote the foreword to this powerful memoir. He says Corona is the only former cartel hit man he knows who is truly remorseful. Corona's turning state's evidence led to the arrest of Javier Arellano Felix and the ultimate downfall of the Tijuana Cartel in 2006. But Corona wasn't free from his past. This story gives insight into how one human being became able to kill without hesitation--and how, no longer a killer, and asking for forgiveness, he now lives with himself."--Jacket.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Case studies.; Corona, Martín.; Arellano-Felix Organization.; Narco-terrorism; Murder for hire; Assassins; Organized crime; Cartels;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Funding evil : how terrorism is financed-- and how to stop it / by Ehrenfeld, Rachel.(CARDINAL)773606;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-250) and index.
Subjects: Drug traffic.; Money laundering.; Terrorism; Terrorism;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Black ops : the rise of special forces in the C.I.A, the S.A.S, and Mossad / by Geraghty, Tony.(CARDINAL)515260;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The president's dilemma -- Delta, Desert One, and "the activity" -- Blood, oil, and dollars -- Cloak-and-dagger dons the green beret -- Plausibly deniable (and other ways into trouble) -- Joseph's coat of many disruptive patterns -- Big boys' games, big boys' rules -- A nimble, precise strategy -- Appendices. The McChrystal report on Afghanistan ; Afghanistan's narco war: breaking the link between drug traffickers and insurgents ; Tora Bora revisited: how we failed to get bin Laden and why it matters today.After eight challenging years in Afghanistan, the new U.S. strategy, aimed at winning hearts and minds rather than search-and-destroy, refocuses the conflict on Special Forces: unorthodox soldiers who work outside of traditional military forces to combine secret military operations with nation building. Tony Geraghty, an expert author in this field for almost thirty years, unveils the evolution of this refined style of war-making from its roots in anti-guerrilla warfare in Ireland and Palestine, by way of the creation of the CIA, the SAS, the Green Berets, America's Office of Strategic Services (OSS), and many others. Israel's Special Forces, including Mossad, are an organic part of the same coherent history, and their story is narrated here for the first time. This is more than a tale of derring-do, it is a sweeping examination of Black Ops at a time when they represent the future of an open-ended global war against terrorism.--From publisher description.
Subjects: Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service.; Israel. Mosad le-modiʻin ṿe-tafḳidim meyuḥadim.; United States. Central Intelligence Agency.; Intelligence service; Special forces (Military science);
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2
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