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Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
“Detective Vincent Madigan is a good cophes charming, effective, and knows how to look after himself. The only problem is that hes up to his neck in debt to Sandia, a notorious East Harlem drug lord. When Madigan devises a scheme to eliminate his debt by robbing Sandia and then repaying him with his own money, he thinks his heist is foolproof.But things go horribly wrong when Madigan is forced to kill his co-conspirators and a child is shot in the...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
" "Lyrical, propulsive, dark and compelling. Joy knows well the grit and gravel of his world, the soul and blemishes of the place."--Daniel Woodrell. In the country-noir tradition of Winter's Bone meets 'Breaking Bad,' a savage and beautiful story of a young man seeking redemption. The area surrounding Cashiers, North Carolina, is home to people of all kinds, but the world that Jacob McNeely lives in is crueler than most. His father runs a methodically...
24) Mr. Nice
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
From middle-class Welsh boy and Oxford scholar, to living the high life as one of Britain's biggest marijuana smugglers, Howard Marks led an existence of rollicking, improbable adventure. The notorious drug dealer, whose legacy as an international hashish trader was elevated by stints as a spy for the British government, and his involvement with an unhinged IRS operative would eventually lead to a 25-year prison sentence.
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Jewel is young and beautiful, and with several hustles under her belt, she's all about making money. This doesn't leave much time for friends, but she'll always make time for Touch, the local hustler. He's been her friend since grammar school, when they made a lifelong pact to look out for each other. Lucky for them, their promise has never been put to the test…until now. When Michael Burroughs arrives on the scene from L.A., he floods the...
Author
Series
Will Trent series volume 7
Language
English
Description
Unseen, pits detectives, lovers, and enemies against one another in an unforgettable standoff between righteous courage and deepest evil. Bill Black is a scary guy: a tall ex-con who rides to work on a Harley and trails an air of violence wherever he goes. In Macon, Georgia, Bill has caught the eye of a wiry little drug dealer and his cunning girlfriend. They think Bill might be a useful ally. They don't know that Bill is actually a Georgia Bureau...
27) Weeds: Season 2
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
After the death of her husband, a suburban mom becomes a pot dealer and must conceal this from her children, best friend, and DEA agent boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"How does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course. From creating brand value to fine-tuning customer service, the folks running cartels have been attentive students of the strategy and tactics used by corporations such as Walmart, McDonald's, and Coca-Cola. And what can government learn to combat this scourge? By analyzing the cartels as companies, law enforcers might...
29) 7 minutes
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
It follows Sam, Mike and Owen, three high school friends who are forced by circumstance to commit a brazen robbery that goes horribly wrong. As each minute of the event unfolds, the stakes are pushed higher and higher. What begins as a simple plan, "in and out in seven minutes," quickly becomes a dangerous game of life and death.
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Since the tragic accident that brutally ended her childhood, Alice O'Farrell has been haunted by her past. Unable to bear the guilt of negligence that led to the death of her younger brother, fifteen-year-old Alice runs away from home. She lives on the streets, makes one bad decision after another, and drowns her guilt in alcohol. But everything changes when she stumbles upon a startling scene: a dead drug dealer and a duffel bag full of ninety-one...
31) Trouble in Rio
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Rio Duncan is one of the youngest children of the Duncan clan. With no solid position in the family business like his other siblings, he has been feeling out of place and decides to disappear. Rio leaves his Duncan identity behind and goes on a search for friends and family who can relate to him. His destination is Baltimore, and he is sure to find what he is looking for in the city with a community like no other. There, he also finds unexpected trouble....
32) Wrong place
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Frank, a former police chief, is hunted down by a meth kingpin seeking to silence him before he can deliver eyewitness testimony against his family, but ultimately finds himself up against more than he thought when he threatens to harm Frank's daughter.
Author
Series
Dopeman's trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Nautica was raised by the streets and forced to grow up quick. The allure of the fast life pulled her into a world of scandal, schemes, and hustling. When Nautica comes upon a big scam and her biggest payday ever, she decides to move to the East Coast in search of a new beginning. What she thought was to be a new start turns out to be a nightmare.
Author
Series
Dopeman's trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A young hustler, working undercover for the FBI, becomes immersed in a high-stakes world of drugs, money, and sex, where, he falls in love with the daughter of a well-known hit man, forcing him to make a difficult decision that puts many people's lives at risk.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The definitive account of the rise and fall of the ultimate narco, "El Chapo," from the New York Times reporter whose coverage of his trial went viral Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is the most legendary of Mexican narcos. As leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel, he was one of the most dangerous men in the world. His fearless climb to power, his brutality, his charm, his taste for luxury, his penchant for disguise, his multiple dramatic prison escapes, his...
36) Sabotage
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
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.
37) Blood father
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When his estranged teenage daughter is targeted by a drug cartel, ex-convict John Link must call upon connections from his criminal past to save his daughter's future.
38) Paulette
Publisher
Gaumont Vidéo
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Français
Description
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the suburbs of Paris. With her small pension, she can no longer make ends meet. A known criminal in her neighborhood commissions her to sell cannabis when she asks him for work. Trouble begins when other local dealers become jealous and upset by her unexpected success.
Author
Series
Toronto novels (John McFetridge) volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
40) Superfly
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Superfly is a remix of the iconic film that defined a genre through its characters, look, sound and feel. Told through the artistic lens of visionary, Director X, this newest take is set to a soundtrack curated by Future and modernized in the city of Atlanta. An action-packed film that follows Youngblood Priest, a cocaine kingpin who wants to get out of the drug game. Hoping for one last score, Priest and this partner travel to Mexico to arrange a...
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