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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a murder, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up an elite world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture cliches of 'Greek life' lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500 executives,...
5) Clete
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Series
Dave Robicheaux novels volume 24
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Clete Purcel--private investigator, former cop, and war veteran with a hard shell covering just a few soft spots--is Dave Robicheaux's longtime friend and partner in detective work. But he has a troubled past. When Clete picks up his car from the local car wash ... to find it ransacked by a group of thugs tied to the drug trade, it feels personal: his grandniece died of a fentanyl overdose, and his fists curl when he thinks of the dealers who sold...
6) Macbeth
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Set in the 1970s in a run-down, industrial town, a police force struggles to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, the chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople, but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom, a master of manipulation named Hecate, has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Like James Ellroy's, My Dark Places, DOWN CITY is a gripping narrative built of memory and reportage, and Leah Carroll's portrait of Rhode Island is sure to take a place next Mary Karr's portrayal of her childhood in East Texas and David Simon's gritty Baltimore. Leah Carroll's mother, a gifted amateur photographer, was murdered by two drug dealers with Mafia connections when Leah was four years old. Her father, a charming alcoholic who hurtled...
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Once on the fast track to success, Helen Hawthorne is now going nowhere fast. She traded in her chic life for a shabby one. And now she's on the run, jumping from city to city and dead-end job to dead-end job, trying to stay one step ahead of her past. After two weeks as the new salesclerk at Juliana's, Fort Lauderdale's ultra-exclusive clothing boutique, Helen still feels out of fashion. And since the only crime likely to be committed around here...
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
This documentary follows director Kevin Booth as he investigates the world of illegal drugs, from street-corner dealers to high level kingpins, from narcotics officers to powerful judges. Approaching his subject matter with a skeptical eye, Booth questions the effectiveness of the drug war, and the motives of those who continue to fuel it from all ends. Through research and investigation, Booth asserts that there might well be just as much greed,...
11) Drugs and crime
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Pub. Date
1989
Description
Discusses the correlation between drugs and crime and how the pressures experienced by drug abusers can lead to criminal acts.
13) Equinox
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Description
The Athena is in the Zeus system, and NARC takes on the most hazardous assignment in its history. Zeus is controlled by Equinox Industries. The city of Elysium is on the brink of corporate war... Angel war has already begun. But Angel, Equinox and the gas giant Zeus are locked in a deadly embrace ... and soon all of NARC is involved. Elysium is at war with itself; at the conflict's heart is Equinox, controlling industry, politics - and the Angel trade?...
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Pub. Date
c2003
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"Sayles takes a fresh look at our society through the eyes of a black extraterrestrial who crash-lands on Earth--in Harlem--and is taken in by the regulars of a local bar. The alien changes everyone he meets on his original and eye-opening journey through the streets of urban America. But can his message of brotherly love resonate with the intergalactic bounty hunters trying to track him down?"--Container.
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Pub. Date
c2002
Description
"Phil Jordan runs DEA intelligence, but when his brother Bruno is killed, he is powerless. Amado Carillo Fuentes runs the most successful drug business in the history of the world, but when his usefulness to governments ceases, he mysteriously dies in a hospital. Carlos Salinas runs Mexico, but as soon as he leaves office, his brother is jailed for murder and Salinas flees into exile. Sal Martinez, DEA agent and Bruno's cousin, does the secret work...
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Pub. Date
2004.
Description
Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments--one called the United States and the other Mexico--and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Beneath all the policy statements and bluster of politicians is a real world of lies, pain, and big money. Down by the River is the true narrative of how a murder led one...
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Colt Brannon volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Colt Brannon is a former Marine Sniper. He is medically retired from the NYPD after a shooting. Colt is weighing his options in life when an opportunity presents itself. Colt has been asked by his cousin a county attorney to take a job as interim sheriff in the town he grew up in. While working in the position Colt stumbles upon a conspiracy that goes back to his late Grandfathers unit in Vietnam. Colt starts looking into his Grandfathers murder....
19) Macbeth
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Set in the 1970s in a run-down, industrial town, a police force struggles to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, the chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople, but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom, a master of manipulation named Hecate, has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"In 2003, fresh out of NYU, Daniel Genis was working in publishing as his writer-father had always expected. But he was also hiding a serious heroin addiction that led him into debt and burglary. After he was arrested for robbing people at knifepoint in 2003, Daniel Genis was nicknamed the 'apologetic bandit' in the press, given his habit of apologizing to his victims as he took their cash. He was sentenced to twelve years (ten with good behavior),...