Mexico Crime

Bloomsbury presents El Narco by Ioan Grillo, read by Paul Thornley. "Essential reading."-Steve Coll, NewYorker.com A gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation's democracy and reaches across to the United States. The...

Noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. One night, Corchado received a tip that he could be the next target of the Zetas, a violent paramilitary group - and that he had 24 hours to find out if the threat was true. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man's quest to report the truth of his country - as he races to save his own life.

Drug Lord, a firsthand account of drug dealing, murder, and corruption, tells of drug kingpin Pablo Acosta, who smuggled up to 20 tons of cocaine each year into the United States before treachery brought about his downfall and grisly death.

Sometimes the Most Priceless Treasure is Life... Two members of an international archeological team have been murdered, and a third is missing. Summoned to the researchers’ site in Guadalajara, Mexico, Alton and Mallory must race the clock to uncover the sinister plans surrounding the site and protect the researchers from further attack. Along the way, they discover that the dig site’s ancient Aztec ruins aren’t the only source of mystery and surprise.

Step into the twisted universe of The King of the Peso, a pioneering Original series that blends intense storytelling with unparalleled immersion into a world of corruption on both sides of the border. Picho, voiced by the sagacious Harvey Guillén, serves as our guide through the intricate tapestry of frauds woven by his intimidating con man of a father, Pietro La Greca, played with captivating charm by the one and only Peter Stormare.

From avocado farmers to masked avengers to Mexico's deadliest criminals, dive inside the story of the cartel that took over Mexico and whose drugs kill thousands of Americans. For over a decade, the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG) has sought to conquer Mexico piece by piece. Even by cartel standards, the CJNG uses violence constantly to expand its ruthless criminal empire. Fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, heroin, oil, tequila, avocados, it will turn a profit from anything it can. This authoritative guide offers an unprecedented look into the CJNG’s operations, ...

CONTIENE LAS FOTOGRAFÍAS DE LA EDICIÓN ORIGINAL Ya se ha dicho que "México Bárbaro" constituye una de esas obras sobre las cuales ha de opinar cada generación. La crónica redactada en ágil estilo periodístico que realizó John Kenneth Turner del México porfirista, tiene un fundamental valor de enfrentamiento. El autor se encuentra con la realidad de la dictadura y tiene oportunidad de sondearla, llegando en su encuesta a límites insospechables. Turner se internó en México haciéndose pasar como un inversionista norteamericano, con el fin de investigar la verdadera situación del...

A family curse. A frontier reckoning. And a darkness that remembers every sin. RC Sandoval didn’t return to Clayton, New Mexico, looking for redemption. After the divorce and the war, he wanted quiet. But when his estranged father dies, RC inherits the remote high‑desert ranch he grew up on—and the secrets buried beneath it. Something is wrong on the land. Cattle won’t settle. Tracks appear where nothing should walk. Shadows move with intent. And when bodies begin turning up—torn apart in ways no predator could manage—RC realizes the past he tried to escape has teeth. Something ...

From acclaimed and prizewinning historian Paul Gillingham, the rich and fascinating history of one of the world’s most diverse, politically groundbreaking, and influential of countries From its outset, “Mexico was more profoundly, globally hybrid than anywhere else in the prior history of...

La historia del cartel que tomó brutalmente el control de México y cuyas drogas matan a miles de estadounidenses. Este es el primer libro en contar la historia completa del Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG). Comenzando como una familia de ambiciosos agricultores de aguacate en el sur de México, el CJNG se ha transformado en un escuadrón de vengadores enmascarados que ejecutan a sus enemigos, expertos despiadados en drogas sintéticas, y ahora en un cartel de drogas que abarca todo el continente, inundando Estados Unidos con fentanilo, metanfetaminas y cocaína. Dividido en ...

The Cartel That Went to War is a forensic look at one of the most violent and militarised organised crime groups of the modern era: Los Zetas. Emerging from within Mexico’s own military ranks, Los Zetas redefined what a cartel could be – not just traffickers of drugs, but an armed, diversified, and fearsome paramilitary enterprise whose reach extended into politics, economics, and the daily lives of communities.

An astonishing, revelatory, and redemptive memoir from two women who escaped the international drug trade, with never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs. "Explosive." —New York Daily News Olivia and Mia Flores are married to the...

When disaffected KGB major Erich Stinnes is spotted in Mexico City, British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice him to take the final step and defect. With his domestic life in shambles and his career heading towards disaster, Bernard needs to prove his re­liability. And he know Stinnes already: Bernard had been interrogated by him in East Berlin. But now, Bernard risks being entangled in a lethal web of old loyalties and old betrayals.

From #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child comes a thrilling novel following archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson as they work together to solve a twisted crime that reaches far beyond any of their worst fears. Following the acclaimed debut of Old Bones, this second "happily...

Mexico is one of the world’s most important nations. It is the largest Spanish-speaking country, a manufacturing powerhouse tied closely to the United States, and home to more than 130 million people. Yet it is also a country where powerful criminal organizations control territory, influence politics, and operate with resources rivaling those of the state itself. How did Mexico arrive here? In Mexico: The Narco State, Donald Elton traces the long historical forces that shaped the country’s political culture and explains why organized crime became embedded within it. The story begins not...

Al publicar México negro, nunca imaginé que, a 35 años de distancia, miles de lectores seguirían leyéndolo. Tampoco supuse la catástrofe que significaría la burocratización de la energía en México: Pemex es la única compañía petrolera quebrada en el mundo. Su insolvencia financiera puede destruir el crédito público de México. Ha sido, con algunas excepciones, una cantera de bandidos. ¿De qué les ha servido la expropiación petrolera de 1938 a más de 50 millones de mexicanos sepultados, hoy en día, en la pobreza?

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ “A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the world In 1965, the US...

DEATH SAINT was selected as a Finalist for Best Mystery in the 2016 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. New clues in an old, unsolved murder case lead Deputy Sheriff Manny Rivera from Moab, Utah, to a small, remote village in the mountains of northern New Mexico. With reluctant and sometimes non-existent assistance from the local sheriff, he enters a community of people unwilling to open up with him because of a centuries-old distrust of outsiders--outsiders were the ones who stole their land grant. He slowly penetrates their hardened attitude toward strangers and learns about a series of ...

Conducted under the umbrella of Project Gunrunner, intended to stem the flow of firearms to Mexico, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) ran a series of “gun walking” sting operations, including Operations Wide Receiver and Operation Fast & Furious. The government allowed licensed gun dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers so that they could continue to track the firearms as they were transferred to higher-level traffickers and key figures in Mexican cartels.

A fatal misfire in Mexico’s underbelly forged a writer—and buried a muse. A gritty, vivid recounting of William S. Burroughs’ Mexico City years, tracing the chaotic aftermath of his wife Joan Vollmer’s tragic death at his hand. This true story unveils the dark heart of a literary legend’s making—steeped in guilt, exile, and the raw pulse of the Beat Generation.