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82) Unit 7
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
The four officers of Unit 7 have a tough mission: eliminate the city's most dangerous drug trafficking network before the opening of the 1992 Seville World Exhibition. The film follows Angel (Mario Casas), Miguel (Joaquín Nún̈ez) the leader of the unit, and Mateo (José Manuel Poga) an aspiring detective, and Rafael (Antonio de la Torre), a violent yet effective force to be reckoned with. Failure is not an option in this compelling action thriller...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Louise wakes up. Her head aches, her mouth is dry, her memory is fuzzy. But she suspects she's done something bad. She rolls over towards her husband, Niall. The man who, until recently, made her feel loved. But it's not Niall who's lying beside her. In fact, she's never seen this man before. And he's not breathing . . . As Louise desperately struggles to piece her memories back together, it's clear to Detective Jonah Sheens and his team that she...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
La autora se adentra en el Cártel de Sinaloa a través del relato de Vicentillo, quien exhibe de manera descarnada cómo funciona el sistema interno que da vida a la organización criminal, la violencia, las mil formas de traficar droga y la complicidad entre políticos, empresarios y fuerzas del orden. Pero sobre todo devela el perfil de quien durante el último medio siglo ha sido el rey del narcotráfico. Quien nunca ha pisado la cárcel y quien...
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
"Es medianoche en México, 2007. El periodista, Alfredo Corchado recibe una llamada telefónica de su fuente principal para informarle que hay un plan para asesinarlo por parte de un poderoso capo. Pronto averigua que lo quieren matar porque uno de sus artículos en el Dallas Morning News afectó los sobornos que los narcotraficantes entregan a policías, militares y funcionarios del gobierno mexicano. Así comienza el viaje en espiral de un hombre...
88) Saint Death
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the illicit human and drug trade at the US-Mexican border."--
Arturo scrapes by living in Anapra living odd jobs and staying out of sight. His friend Faustino joined one of the drug gangs. He stole money form the gang to send his girlfriend and her baby into the U.S.-- and he wants Arturo's help replacing the money before the gang kills him. Looming over Arturo's story, and Juarez itself, is Santa Muerte-- Saint Death, watching impassively...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Small-time pot dealer David Clark ... must become a big-time drug smuggler, and devises a foolproof plan. He convinces his neighbors--stripper Rose ... loser Kenny ... and runaway Casey ... to create a fake family. With one huge RV ... the "Millers" head south of the border"--Container.
91) The obsession
Author
Language
English
Description
After freeing her mother from an abusive relationship, Delilah Wong refuses to play a part in Logan's delusional romance -- but how can she convince him to let her go?
92) Narco cultura
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
Español
Description
To a growing number of Mexicans and Latinos in the Americas, narco-traffickers have become icons, glorified by musicians who praise their fame and success. In this new constituency, they represent a pathway out of the ghetto, nurturing a new American dream fueled by money, drugs, and violence. The film is an explosive look at the drug cartels' pop culture influence on both sides of the border as seen through the eyes of an LA narcocorrido singer and...
Language
English
Description
Llewelyn Moss stumbles onto a drug deal gone monumentally wrong while hunting in the parched Texas scrubland near the Mexico border. A satchel filled with $2 million seems to be a ship finally arrived, and he dreams of moving his wife Carla Jean out of the trailer park and into the good life. It isn't long before he's being tracked by Anton Chigurh, a psychopathic "debt collector." Sheriff Bell sets out to find Llewelyn, not so much for the propriety...
94) Traffic
Publisher
USA Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
Presents a mix of interrelated stories: a Mexican policeman finds himself and his partner caught in an often deadly web of corruption; a pair of DEA agents work undercover in a sordid and dangerous part of San Diego; a wealthy drug baron living in upscale, suburban America is arrested and learns how quickly his unknowing and pampered wife takes over his business; and the U.S. President's new drug czar must deal with his increasingly drug-addicted...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
For San Francisco's newest medical examiner, Dr. Jessie Teska, it was supposed to be a fresh start. A new job in a new city. A way to escape her own dark past. Instead she faces a chilling discovery when an opioid-overdose case contains hints of something more sinister. Jessie's superiors urge her to close the case, but as more bodies land on her autopsy table, she uncovers a constellation of deaths that point to an elaborate plot involving drug dealers...
96) Bag men
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
A 1960s mystery starring detective Manny Manning of the Boston police as he investigates the murder of a priest at the airport. The priest was bringing several thousand hosts consecrated by the pope and these have disappeared. At tale of drugs.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Aguilar returns from a brief business trip to find that his wife, Agustina, has had a complete mental breakdown, and as he struggles to help her regain her sanity, he begins to realize how little he knows about his wife's troubled past.
98) Inside the DEA
Author
Publisher
Lucent Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Discuss the DEA and what it is like to work for the organization.
99) Savages
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben, a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon, a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry, raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town, until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partner with them.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
CIA Agent Jack Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence when his mentor, Admiral James Greer becomes gravely ill. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of one of the president's friends, a prominent U.S. businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels. Caught in the crossfire, Ryan takes matters into his own hands.
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