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In the not-too-distant future, the Obermeyer Institute (OI) has made a revolutionary discovery: With special training, humans can tap into the brain's hidden telekinetic powers.The training is strenuous, though, and it works only for those with natural potential. Tough girl Mac has that potential, and she's a devoted member of the OI. But there's one rule she can't help but bend. Her boss thinks celibacy is key to their work.
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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The true story of Assistant U.S. Attorney Bonnie Klapper's and Special Agent Romedio "Rooney" Viola's thirteen-year journey to systematically dismantle the Colombian cartel responsible for 60 percent of all the cocaine entering the United States.
5) Sabotage
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2014
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English
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Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, one-by-one, the team members mysteriously start to be eliminated. As the body count rises, everyone is a suspect.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Amexica is a street-level portrait of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border--"a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither"--as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch. In 2009, after reporting from the border for many years, journalist Ed Vulliamy traveled the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, from Tijuana to Matamoros, a kaleidoscopic landscape of corruption...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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An award-winning crime reporter describes how two high school honor-roll students used gang connections to loot pharmacies and sell narcotics through delivery drivers using location-based technology and even formed an alliance with the Mexican drug cartel headed by El Chapo.
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Jesse Venturas Marijuana Manifesto calls for an end to the War on Drugs. Just because something is illegal, that doesn't mean it goes away, it just means that criminals run it. Legalizing marijuana will serve to rejuvenate our pathetic economy, and just might make people a little happier. Venturas book will show us all how we can take our country back,"--NoveList.
10) Takedown: a small-town cop's battle against the Hell's Angels and the nation's biggest drug gang
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Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Jeff Buck thought he'd seen it all. Twenty years working undercover in the netherworld of drugs had left him burned out and grateful to assume the quiet job of police chief in the small town of Reminderville, Ohio. That is, until a simple domestic assault case turns out to have links to the murder of a drug runner in upstate New York and a syndicate smuggling billions of dollars in drugs across the U.S.- Canada border. As Buck reluctantly plunges...
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Virgil Films & Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
©2013.
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English
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For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for more than 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, it captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels--from the dealer to grieving mother to the narcotics officer to the senator to the inmate to the federal judge--revealing...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"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 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...
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"January, 2015 will mark a century of the war on drugs in the United States: one hundred years since the first arrests under the Harrison Act. Facing down this anniversary, Johann Hari was witnessing a close relative and an ex-boyfriend bottoming out on cocaine and heroin. But what was the big picture in the war on drugs? Why does it continue, when most people now think it has failed? The reporter set out on a two-year, 20,000-mile journey through...
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"A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic “A poignant and compelling re-examination of a tragic era in America history . . . insightful . . . and deeply moving.”٬٢٠١٤؛Bryan Stevenson, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Just Mercy The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably...
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One World
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico borderand how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy Josâe and Miguel Treviäno were bonded by blood and a shared vision of a better life. But they chose different paths that would end at the same violent crossroadswith considerable help from the FBI and an enigmatic, all-American snitch. Josâe was a devoted family man who cut no corners...
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Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Berlin 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use-long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws-is rampant throughout the city. Split into four sectors, Berlin's drug policies are being enforced under the individual jurisdictionsof each allied power-the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the US. In the American zone, Arthur J. Giuliani of the nascent Federal Bureau of Narcotics is tasked with learning about the Nazis' anti-drug...
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