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1) The cobra
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English
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For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires, do anything he thinks necessary. The war is on.
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English
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"Ryder Creed and his dogs have been making national headlines. They've intercepted several major drug stashes being smuggled through Atlanta's airport. But their new found celebrity has also garnered some unwanted attention. When Creed and one of his dogs are called in to search a commercial fishing vessel, they discover a secret compartment. But the Colombian cartels' latest shipment isn't drugs. This time, its cargo is human. To make matters worse,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Details the 1990 kidnappings of ten Columbian men and women by Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar who planned to use the hostages as bargaining chips in negotiations with the government; focusing on the experiences of journalist Maruja Pachon who was held captive for six months.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Three years after undercover agent Robert Mazur infiltrated Pablo Escobar’s Medellín drug cartel, he reemerged, a half-million-dollar bounty still on his head, with a new identity for a risky new sting. He was now Robert Baldasare, money launderer and president of an international trade finance company. Deployed to Panama, Mazur worked, traveled, partied, and washed millions with Central America’s criminal elite. Partnered with a young superstar...
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Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realises that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogotá billiard hall and grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope. Asking Antonio to find him somewhere private to play it, they go to a...
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30 for 30 volume no. 16
Publisher
ESPN Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
Español
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While rival drug cartels warred in the streets, the Columbian national soccer team made a rapid rise to glory, with Andres Escobar its inspirational captain. Meanwhile the infamous drug baron, Pablo Escobar, pioneered "Narco-soccer". After a mistake by Andres led to a loss at the 1994 World Cup, less than ten days later he was gunned down outside a bar, a tragedy documented in this thriller about the intersection of crime and sport.
Publisher
DistriMax
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
American visa: A man travels to La Paz, Bolivia to seek a tourist visa to the U.S. with hopes visit his son, and perhaps stay permanently. But when he meets a beautiful woman and begins to fall in love, he must make the hard decision of whether to go or to stay.
Rosario Tijeras: Antonio and Emilio are two upperclass friends who one day meet the beautiful and sensual narcotics assassin of Medillín, Rosario Tijeras "The Scissors". Moved by hatred...
10) The infiltrator
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Language
English
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A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
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Debolsillo Mexico
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
La exótica fuga y posterior caza de un hipopótamo, último vestigio del imposible zoológico con el que Pablo Escobar exhibía su poder, es la chispa que arranca los mecanismos de la memoria de Antonio Yammara, protagonista y narrador de El ruido de las cosas al caer, un negro balance de una época de terror y violencia, en una Bogotá descrita como un territorio literario lleno de significaciones.En 1995, Antonio conoce al intrigante Ricardo Laverde,...
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Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
CIA Agent Jack Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence when his mentor, Admiral James Greer becomes gravely ill. His first assignment is to investigate the murder of one of the president's friends, a prominent U.S. businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels. Caught in the crossfire, Ryan takes matters into his own hands.
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English
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The hunt for Red October: A new technologically superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading the the United States coast under the command of Captain Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. A lone CIA analyst has a different idea: he thinks Ramius is planning to defect, but he has only a few hours to find him and prove it. At the same time, the entire Russian naval and air commands are trying to find Ramius...
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