An analysis of the international cocaine trade and its less-understood role in the global economy explores its rules, armies and influence on everyday life, detailing the arrangements among leading cartels and the violent extent of their power.

Traces the collaborative effort between two U.S. agents and a security chief for a notorious Colombian drug cartel to dismantle the organization and bring its leaders to justice, a life-risking venture marked by a race to protect the life of a key witness.

A mafia insider and former head smuggler for the Medellin cartel describes his violent relationships with criminal powers, his alliance with the U.S. government, and his role in reshaping the nation's war on drugs.

"This is the story of the Chicago criminal legend, John Louis Cappas. To crime buffs, "Tall Money" is a hellacious and felonious Chicago epic. To younger readers, it's a cautionary and wild tale of drugs and treachery aimed at a generation steeped in bling, casual violence, materialism and coming-of-age incarceration. "Tall Money" is "Risky Business" gone terribly, terribly awry."--p.[4] of Cover.

A page-turning account of the international cocaine trade, presented as five lessons in how to move tons of the drug across borders Forget about cocaine concealed in false-bottomed suitcases or swallowed in ovules resistant to gastric juices. When entire national economies are kept afloat by the money from cocaine smuggling, the quantities these tactics represent are meaningless. When a commodity like cocaine becomes a mainstay of the international...

Kayla "Bossy" Ticker is a bona fide product of the streets, spending her time on the grind and settling scores. Years after forming alliances with a couple of the city's most notorious gangsters, she creates a formula to cook cocaine with a potency most dealers would pay top dollar to get their hands on. Now in her prime, "Bossy" has gotten tired of looking over her shoulder and watching her own back. The death of her mentor hastens her decision...

"Pure Narco tells the tale of arguably America's biggest cocaine trafficker and his capture in Venezuela during one of the biggest anti-narcotics takedowns of all time. But it is more than that; Pure Narco is unique in that it is a story of a family caught up in a life on the run and Luis Navia's adjustment to civilian life after prison"--

Narcos: rise of the cartels is a brutal turn-based action strategy game based on the hit Netflix TV series. Explore the entire first season from two sides each with their own unique story. Join the narcos and expand the drug cartel empire or take up arms with the DEA and bring it crumbling down. Welcome to Colombia, 1980's - the fires of el patrón's empire have been lit, its influence spanning borders, and expansion unabated. Influence and corruption...

Traces the collaboration between two U.S. agents and a security chief for a notorious Colombian drug cartel to dismantle the organization and bring its leaders to justice, a venture marked by a race to protect the life of a key witness.

Robert Saviano presents an electrifying investigation of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy.