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  • The Cartels

    The Story of Mexico's Most Dangerous Criminal Organizations and Their Impact on U.S. Security

    by George W. Grayson Professor Emeritus ...
    Series series Praeger Security International
    An up-to-date examination of Mexico's version of the "War on Drugs" that exposes the evolution of major cartels and their corruption of politicians, law-enforcement agencies, and the Army.What can President Enrique Peña Nieto do to curb the narcotics-induced mayhem in Mexico, and what would be the consequences to the United States if he fails? This book analyzes Mexico's transition from a ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • The Executioner's Men

    Los Zetas, Rogue Soldiers, Criminal Entrepreneurs, and the Shadow State They Created

    by George W. Grayson ...
    Los Zetas represent a new generation of ruthless, sadistic pragmatists in Mexico and Central America who are impelling a tectonic shift among drug trafficking organizations in the Americas. Mexico's marines have taken down the cartel's top leaders; nevertheless, these capos and their desperados have forever altered how criminal business is conducted in the Western Hemisphere. This narrative brings ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Mexico

    Narco-Violence and a Failed State?

    by George W Grayson ...
    * Mexico was named an Outstanding Academic Title of 2010 by Choice Magazine.Bloodshed connected with Mexican drug cartels, how they emerged, and their impact on the United States is the subject of this frightening book. Savage narcotics-related decapitations, castrations, and other murders have destroyed tourism in many Mexican communities and such savagery is now cascading across the border into ... Read more

    $200.62 CAD

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  • Midnight in Mexico

    A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness

    by Alfredo Corchado ...
    Named one of the best true crime books of all time by TimeIn the last six years, more than eighty thousand people have been killed in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Murder City

    Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

    by Charles Bowden ...
    Ciudad 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.In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who spent extended periods of time in Juarez-has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • El Sicario

    The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin

    Edited by Molly Molloy, Charles Bowden ...
    In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He is a contract killer who functioned as a commandante in the Chihuahuan State police, who was trained in the US by the FBI, and who for twenty years kidnapped, tortured and murdered people for the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Last Narco

    Hunting El Chapo, The World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord

    by Malcolm Beith ...
    Mexico, April 2009. The bodies of a pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as campesinos (farmers), are dumped by the side of the road. Beside the corpses is a message on a scrap of paper: 'You'll never get El Chapo.'Such is the fate of many who have dared to try to catch El Chapo, or oppose him. El Chapo is the world's most wanted drug lord, at large since he escaped from ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Accountant's Story

    Inside the Violent World of the Medellín Cartel

    by Roberto Escobar ...
    "I have many scars. Some of them are physical, but many more are scars on my soul. A bomb sent to kill me while I was in a maximum security prison has made me blind, yet now I see the world more clearly than I have ever seen it before. I have lived an incredible adventure. I watched as my brother, Pablo Escobar, became the most successful criminal in history, but also a hero to many of the people ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • American Sniper

    The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

    by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice ...
    The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood’s blockbuster, Academy-Award nominated movie."An amazingly detailed account of fighting in Iraq—a humanizing, brave story that’s extremely readable." — PATRICIA CORNWELL, New York Times Book Review**"Jaw-dropping...Undeniably riveting." *—***RICHARD ROEPER, Chicago Sun-Times... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Wolf Boys

    Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel

    by Dan Slater ...
    The true story of two American teenagers turned cartel assassins—and the Mexican American detective who fought to stop them. Wolf Boys is “a hell of a story…undeniably gripping” (The New York Times), a harrowing nonfiction thriller that reads like a crime novel but is rooted in extraordinary investigative reporting.Journalist Dan Slater tells the unforgettable tale of Gabriel Cardona, a bright and ... Read more

    $19.50 CAD

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  • Shape

    The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and EverythingElse

    by Jordan Ellenberg ...
    **An instant New York Times Bestseller!“Unreasonably entertaining . . . reveals how geometric thinking can allow for everything from fairer American elections to better pandemic planning.” *—*The New York TimesFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong—himself a world-class geometer—a far-ranging exploration of the power of geometry, which turns out to help us think better ... Read more

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  • Inside the Montreal Mafia

    The Confessions of Andrew Scoppa

    by Félix Séguin, Eric Thibault ...
    Translated by Julia Jones ...
    National Bestseller“Inside the Montreal Mafia is an entertaining, illuminating, and often sobering look at the downfall of the Rizzuto crime family … Highly readable and engaging.” — Montreal Review of BooksA groundbreaking, exclusive inside look at the North American Mafia and the Rizzuto familyFor the first time in Canadian history, a high-ranking mafioso agreed to break the code of omertà by ... Read more

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