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44) Takedown: a small-town cop's battle against the Hell's Angels and the nation's biggest drug gang
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Jeff Buck thought he'd seen it all. Twenty years working undercover in the netherworld of drugs had left him burned out and grateful to assume the quiet job of police chief in the small town of Reminderville, Ohio. That is, until a simple domestic assault case turns out to have links to the murder of a drug runner in upstate New York and a syndicate smuggling billions of dollars in drugs across the U.S.-Canada border.
As Buck reluctantly plunges back...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Two tough New York City narcotics detectives learn of a scheme to smuggle a large quantity of heroin inside an automobile shipped from France.
Alain Chanier is a dapper businessman from Marseilles, France. He's actually a drug lord working on a big score. He wants to sell millions of dollars worth of 89% pure heroin. Salvatore Boca is a small-time hood who is his potential buyer. Boca is being tailed by two undercover New York City narcotics police...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"January, 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States: one hundred years since the first arrests under the Harrison Act. Facing down this anniversary, Johann Hari was witnessing a close relative and an ex-boyfriend bottoming out on cocaine and heroin. But what was the big picture in the war on drugs? Why does it continue, when most people now think it has failed? The reporter set out on a two-year, 20,000-mile journey through...
47) The infiltrator
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
U.S. Customs officer Robert Mazur goes undercover to expose Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's money laundering operation.
48) The cobra (C D)
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. The war is on.
49) Deep water
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Real stories. Real teens. Real crimes. A group of teens traffic drugs between Mexico and California in this start to the brand-new Simon True series. It's 1971 in Coronado, a small southern California beach town. For seventeen-year-old Eddie Otero, a skilled waterman and avid surfer, life is simple. Then a friend makes him an offer: Swim an illicit package across the border from Mexico. The intense workout is dangerous. Thrilling. Lucrative. And...
51) The last stand
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
After leaving his LAPD narcotics post, Sheriff Ray Owens moved and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. That peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez, one of the most notorious drug kingpins, makes an escape from the FBI. Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border, straight through Sommerton Junction.
52) Public enemy #1
Author
Series
Public Enemy volume 1
Publisher
DAFINA, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Hired to investigate the so-called suicide of a disgraced narcotics detective, Khloe Mercer, determined to make a name for herself, turns the toughest streets of Norfolk, Virginia, upside-down to uncover the truth, placing her life in the crosshairs.
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Presents discussion and debate on the topic of the war on drugs, including illegal drugs, law enforcement, racism, terrorism, mandatory minimum sentences, drug abuse resistance education programs, legalization of marijuana, medical marijuana.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
"Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives - family, girlfriends, jobs - into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track...
55) The Last Stand
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After leaving his LAPD narcotics post, Sheriff Ray Owens moved and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. That peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez, one of the most notorious drug kingpins, makes an escape from the FBI. Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border, straight through Sommerton Junction.
56) Born to darkness
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michelle "Mac" Mackenzie, a super-human "Greater-Than" with unique abilities, teams up with a former Navy SEAL Shane Laughlin to stop the spread of a highly addictive drug called Destiny, which gives anyone the same abilities as a "Greater-Than."
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's desk bound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping price, and the buyer was Miguel Treviano, one of the leaders of the Zetas, Mexico's most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested...