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The cartel / by Winslow, Don,1953-author.;
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Drug traffic; Organized crime; Drugs;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Cartel wives : a true story of deadly decisions, steadfast love, and bringing down El Chapo / by Flores, Mia,1980-author.; Flores, Olivia,1975-author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Flores, Mia, 1980-; Flores, Olivia, 1975-; Guzmán, Joaquín.; Drug dealers; Drug traffic; Informers; Criminal investigation;
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American cartel : inside the battle to bring down the opioid industry / by Higham, Scott,author.; Horwitz, Sari,author.;
"AMERICAN CARTEL is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows of a small band of DEA agents led by Joe Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied 30 years bringing down bad guys, along with a band of lawyers led by West Virginia native Paul Farrell Jr. who fought to hold the drug industry to account in the face of the worst man-made drug epidemic in American history. It is the story of underdogs prevailing over corporate greed and political cowardice, persevering in the face of predicted failure, and how they found some semblance of justice for the families of the dead with the most complex civil litigation in American history. The lawyers and investigators discovered hundreds of thousands of confidential corporate emails and memos during courtroom combat with legions of white-shoe law firms defending the opioid industry. One breathtaking disclosure after another-from emails that mocked addicts to invoices chronicling the rise of pill mills--showed the indifference of big business to the epidemic's toll. Its narrative approach echoes work such as A Civil Action and The Insider, moving dramatically between corporate boardrooms, courthouses, lobbying firms, DEA field offices and Capitol Hill while capturing the human toll of the epidemic on America's streets. AMERICAN CARTEL is the story of those who were on the front lines of the fight to stop the human carnage. Along the way, they suffer a string of defeats, some of their careers destroyed by the very same government officials who swore to uphold the law, before they finally prevail over some of the most powerful corporate and political influences in the nation"--
Subjects: United States. Drug Enforcement Administration.; Drug control; Opioid abuse; Pharmaceutical industry;
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Data cartels : the companies that control and monopolize our information / by Lamdan, Sarah,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In our digital world, data is power, and information hoarders reign supreme. The practices of these digital pillagers are analogous to those of cartels--they use intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain control and power. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of the "data cartels," demonstrating how the entities mining, hoarding, commodifying, and selling our data and informational resources perpetuate social inequalities and threaten the democratic sharing of knowledge. The companies at the center of this book are not household names like Google. They fly under the radar and self-identify as "data analytics" or "business solutions" operations. These companies supply the digital lifeblood that flow through the circulatory system of the internet. With their control over data, they can prevent the free flow of information to places where it is needed, and simultaneously distribute private information to predatory entities. Just a few companies dominate most of our critical informational resources, from scientific research and financial data to the law. They are also data brokers, selling our personal data to law enforcement and other government agencies that determine whether we should be eligible for social services, and they sell "risk" products that insurance companies, employers, landlords, and healthcare systems use to make decisions. Alarmingly, everything they're doing is perfectly legal. Ranging from small information firms to billion-dollar data giants like Thomson Reuters and RELX Group, these companies masterfully exploit outdated information and privacy laws, curating online information in a way that amplifies digital racism and targets marginalized communities. In this book, Lamdan contends that privatization and tech exceptionalism have prevented us from creating effective legal regulation. Lack of legal intervention has allowed oversized information oligopolies to coalesce. In addition to specific legal and market-based solutions, Lamdan calls for treating information like a public good and creating digital infrastructure that supports our democratic ideals"--
Subjects: Antitrust law; Cartels; Data protection; Freedom of information; Information services industry; Information services industry;
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Confessions of a cartel hit man / by Corona, Martin(Assassin); Rafael, Tony.;
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Subjects: Corona, Martin (Assassin); Arellano-Felix Organization.; Assassins; Organized crime; Cartels;
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Bones : brothers, horses, cartels, and the borderland dream / by Tone, Joe,author.;
The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border--and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy.
Subjects: True crime stories.; Treviño Morales, Miguel, 1970-; Treviño Morales, José.; Zetas (Drug cartel); United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation.; Drug traffic; Drug control; Organized crime; Money laundering; Horse racing;
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Cari Mora / by Harris, Thomas,1940-author.;
Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men. Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and her will to survive has been tested before.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Cartels; Refugees; Villains;
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Stealth attack / by Gilstrap, John.;
El Paso, Texas, is a battleground. It's an open market for Mexican drug cartels to sell their wares. It's also a destination for teens looking for fun. Venice Alexander's fourteen-year-old son Roman was there on a school trip. Now, he and a fellow student have vanished without a trace. Assuming the kidnapping is retaliation for his past incursions against Mexico's crime syndicates, Jonathan Grave leads his covert operatives to rescue their teammate's son. But the trail Jonathan follows leads him down unexpected paths where he ends up in the crossfire of a deadly vendetta...
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Grave, Jonathan (Fictitious character); Kidnapping; Cartels;
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The infiltrator [videorecording] / by Aubrey, Juliet,1969-actor.; Cranston, Bryan,1956-actor.; Dukakis, Olympia,actor.; Furman, Brad,film director.; Furman, Ellen Brown,screenwriter.; Kruger, Diane,1976-actor.; Leguizamo, John,actor.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Mazur, Robert.Infiltrator.; Broad Green Pictures (Firm),publisher.; Mongrel Media.;
Bryan Cranston, John Leguizamo, Diane Kruger, Olympia Dukakis, Juliet Aubrey.A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA Rating: R; for strong violence, language throughout, some sexual content and drug material.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Crime films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Escobar, Pablo; Medellín Cartel; Cocaine industry; Drug control; Drug dealers; Money laundering;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Wolfpack : the millennial mobsters who brought chaos and the cartels to the Canadian underworld / by Edwards, Peter,1956-author.; Nájera, Luis(Luis Horacio),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Joined by an award-winning Mexican journalist, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards reveals the successors to Vito Rizzuto's criminal dominance, a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival on Canada's doorstep of the world's most dangerous criminal organizations: the drug cartels of Mexico. Following the death of Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto in 2013, a group of young criminals rose to fill the vacuum in power on his old turf. Targetting the old guard of Mafia and 'Ndrangheta, still led in many cases by men in their seventies and eighties and steeped in a highly structured, quasi-religious criminal tradition, the newcomers were nothing like their predecessors. The impatient millennials leading this self-styled 'Wolfpack' were organized-crime disruptors who grew up with technology at their fingertips in a socially networked criminal underworld. They're part of Canada's most ethnically diverse generation, and their organization was as inclusive as it is criminal. They shared an overwhelming sense of entitlement, with a self-assuredness that astonished their rivals but left them foolishly exposed to law enforcement, enemies and the force in global crime they were arrogant enough to think they could handle doing business with. The dominant and most violent force in the global narcotics trade through the 2000s, Mexico's Sinaloa and Los Zetas drug cartels, recognized the naivety of their eager new customers up north and invited themselves to Canada to take advantage. In times of chaos and collapsing orders, disruptors rule. But was this new gang the new underworld order, or just the latest challenger in an ongoing upheaval in the wake of Rizzuto's death? The bloody answers are in The Wolfpack."--
Subjects: True crime stories.; Wolfpack Alliance (Gang); Gangs; Organized crime;
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