Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream

He enlisted tyler graham, an american rancher who would eventually breed José’s champion horse—nicknamed Bones—to help the FBI infiltrate what was revealing itself to be a major money-laundering operation, with the ultimate goal of capturing the infamous Miguel Treviño. Tone adds some vivid details and digs deep into the colorful world of quarter-horse racing.

The new york Times Book Review. The humble bricklayer quickly became a major player in the quarter-horse racing scene that thrived in the American Southwest and Mexico. Tone weaves the threads together with skillful pacing and sharp prose, marking him as an important new talent in narrative nonfiction. Citizen, gave every indication of rejecting his brother’s criminal lifestyle.

While josé struggled to make ends meet, miguel ascended to the top ranks of Los Zetas, a notoriously bloody drug cartel—his crimes had become the stuff of legend and myth on both sides of the border. He grew up loving the sprawling countryside and its tough, fast quarter horses, but in search of opportunity he crossed the border into Texas to look for work as a bricklayer.

Compelling and complex, and the way greed and fear mingle with race, class, the morally dubious machinery of drug and border enforcement, Bones sheds light on the perilous lives of American ranchers, and violence along America’s vast Southwestern border. Praise for bones“the true-life tale of the Zetas’ foray into quarter horses is masterfully recounted.

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Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty

Then, lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping price, one of the leaders of the Zetas, one day, and the buyer was Miguel Treviño, Mexico's most brutal drug cartel. The riveting and suspenseful account of two young fbi agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel TreviñoDrugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he’s deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war.

If this was true, it offered a rookie like Lawson the perfect opportunity to infiltrate the cartel. Lawson teams up with a more experienced agent, taking on impossible odds, Alma Perez, and, sets out to take down one of the world’s most fearsome drug lords. In bloodlines, emmy and national magazine award-winning journalist Melissa del Bosque follows Lawson and Perez's harrowing attempt to dismantle a cartel leader’s American racing dynasty built on extortion and blood money.

With extensive access to investigative evidence and in-depth interviews with key players, del Bosque turns more than three years of research and her decades of reporting on Mexico and the border into a gripping narrative about greed and corruption. The source suggested that Treviño was laundering money through American quarter horse racing.

Bloodlines offers us an unprecedented look at the inner workings of the Zetas and US federal agencies, and opens a new vista onto the changing nature of the drug war and its global expansion.  .


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Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel

It isn’t long before gabriel abandons his promising future for the allure of juvenile crime, which leads him across the river to Mexico’s most dangerous drug cartel: Los Zetas. As the cartel wars spill over the border, Gabriel and his crew are sent to the States to work. But the ghettos of laredo, texas—his border town—are full of smugglers and gangsters and patrolled by one of the largest law-enforcement complexes in the world.

A hell of a story…undeniably gripping. The new york timesin this astonishing story, journalist Dan Slater recounts the unforgettable odyssey of Gabriel Cardona. Friends from his childhood join him and eventually they catch the eye of the cartel’s leadership. At first glance, handsome, bright, Gabriel is the poster-boy American teenager: athletic, and charismatic.

Ultimately though, wolf Boys is the intimate story of the lobos: teens turned into pawns for the cartels. The tale of two american teenagers recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and the Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unstoppable. Detective robert garcia’s pursuit of the boys puts him face-to-face with the urgent consequences and new security threats of a drug war he sees as unwinnable.

A nonfiction thriller, it reads with the emotional clarity of a great novel, yet offers its revelations through extraordinary reporting. But in texas, the teen hit men encounter a Mexican-born homicide detective determined to keep cartel violence out of his adopted country. In wolf boys, slater takes readers on a harrowing, often brutal journey into the heart of the Mexican drug trade.




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The Last Sheriff in Texas: A True Tale of Violence and the Vote

Barnhart confronted ennis in the election of 1952: a landmark standoff between old Texas, and urban Texas, oil institutions, with its culture of cowboy bravery and violence, with its lawyers, and a growing Mexican population. An amazon best history book of the Month "A narrative with resonance well beyond seekers of Texas history.

. Old west justice ruled, as evidenced by a 1947 shootout when outlaws surprised popular sheriff Vail Ennis at a gas station and shot him five times, point-blank, in the belly. Debate over excessive force in law enforcement, the influence of the media, gun control, the power of the oil industry, Anglo-Mexican relations, urban-rural conflict, mistrust of politicians and the political process—all have surprising historical precedence in the story of Vail Ennis and Johnny Barnhart.

The town would never be the same again. The last sheriff in Texas would be an amazing allegory for our times, were it fiction. Time magazine’s full-page article on the shooting was seen by some as a referendum on law enforcement owing to the sheriff’s extreme violence, but supportive telegrams from all across America poured into Beeville’s tiny post office.

Ennis managed to draw his gun and put three bullets in each assailant; he reloaded and shot them three times more. Instead it suggests cultural trenches that we view as new that were dug decades ago. Houston chronicle beeville, clean streets, a place of good schools, Texas, was the most American of small towns—the place that GIs had fantasized about while fighting through the ruins of Europe, and churches.

The last sheriff in texas is a riveting narrative about the postwar American landscape, an era grappling with the same issues we continue to face today.


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Cartel Wives: A True Story of Deadly Decisions, Steadfast Love, and Bringing Down El Chapo

Their husbands worked with--and then brought down--El Chapo, as well as dozens of high-level members of the Mexican cartels. They knew that life was about more than wealth; it was about love, family, and doing what's right. They had everything money could buy: luxury cars, huge houses, and expensive jewelry--but they chose to give it all up when they cooperated with the US government.

An astonishing, and redemptive memoir from two women who escaped the international drug trade, the Sinaloa Cartel, revelatory, with never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs. Olivia and mia flores are married to the highest level drug traffickers ever to become US informants.

Cartel wives is a love story, finally, an insider's look into the terrifying but high-flying empire of the new world of drugs, and, a "Married to the Mob" story, the story of a major DEA and FBI operation.


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Texas Blood: Seven Generations Among the Outlaws, Ranchers, Indians, Missionaries, Soldiers, and Smugglers of the Borderlands

Hodge's ranching family. In the tradition of ian frazier's great plains, an intoxicating, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Here is an unsentimental, keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas so magical, punishing, and polarizing.

And here is a contemplation of what it means that the ranching industry that has sustained families like Hodge's for almost two centuries is quickly fading away, taking with it a part of our larger, deep-rooted cultural inheritance. What brought the author's family to texas? what is it about texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, dreamers and desperate souls, Hodge travels across his home state--which he loves and hates in shifting measure--tracing the wanderings of his ancestors into forgotten histories along vanished roads.

Here is a spellbindingly evocative portrait of the borderlands--with its brutal history of colonization, conquest, and genocide; where stories of death and drugs and desperation play out daily. A wholly original fusion of memoir and history--as piercing as it is elegiac--Texas Blood is a triumph.


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Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man

That work continued until the arrest of Javier Arellano-Félix in 2006 in a huge coordinated DEA operation. Martin corona played a key role in the downfall of the cartel when he turned state's evidence. Special agent of the california department of Justice Steve Duncan, who wrote the foreword, says Martin Corona is the only former cartel hit man he knows who is truly remorseful.

Martin's father was a US Marine. He soon returned to a gangbanging life he now deeply regrets. The family had many solid middle-class advantages, including the good fortune to be posted in Hawaii for a time during which a teenage Martin thought he might be able to turn away from the outlaw life of theft, drug dealing, gun play, and prostitution.

He is no longer a killer; he has asked for forgiveness; he has made a kind of peace for himself. Corona's crew would cross into the united States from their luxurious hideout in Mexico, kill whoever needed to be killed north of the border, and return home in the afternoon. Martin corona, fell into the outlaw life at twelve and worked for a crew run by the Arellano brothers, a US citizen, founders of the the Tijuana drug cartel that dominated the Southern California drug trade and much bloody gang warfare for decades.

He briefly quit drugs and held down a job, but a die had been cast. How does someone become evil, a murderer who can kill without hesitation? This story is an insight into how it happened to one human being and how he now lives with himself. It is a cautionary tale, but also one that shows that evil doesn't have to be forever.




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American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

. Tracing the shift in their relationship from true love to crime spree, Hesse also conjures the once-thriving coastal community, decimated by a punishing economy and increasingly suspicious of their neighbors as the culprits remained at large. Weaving the story into the history of arson in the united States, the critically acclaimed American Fire re-creates the anguished nights this quiet county lit up in flames, evoking a microcosm of rural America—a land half-gutted before the fires began.

Ace reporter” entertainment weekly monica Hesse spent years investigating the story, emerging with breathtaking portraits of the arsonists—troubled addict Charlie Smith and his girlfriend, Tonya Bundick. Volunteer firefighters slept at their stations. Vigilante groups sprang up, patrolling the rural Virginia coast with cameras and camouflage.

. Masterful. Washington postthe arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn’t stop for months. The arsonist seemed to target abandoned buildings, but local police were stretched too thin to surveil them all. Night after night, the people of Accomack County waited to see which building would burn down next, regarding each other at first with compassion, and later suspicion.

Accomack was desolate—there were hundreds of abandoned buildings.


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Gangster Warlords: Drug Dollars, Killing Fields, and the New Politics of Latin America

In brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. Author of the critically acclaimed el narco, ioan Grillo has covered Latin America since 2001 and gained access to every level of the cartel chain of command in what he calls the new battlefields of the Americas.

What they do affects you now--from the gas in your car, to the gold in your jewelry, to the tens of thousands of Latin Americans calling for refugee status in the U. S. After the Cold War. In southern mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint while enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies. A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, guns, unleashing guerrilla attacks, and part rock star, strong-arming governments, part terrorist, and taking over much of the world's trade in narcotics, and humans.

Gangster warlords is the first definitive account of the crime wars now wracking Central and South America and the Caribbean, regions largely abandoned by the U. S. Moving between militia-controlled ghettos and the halls of top policy-makers, Grillo provides a disturbing new understanding of a war that has spiraled out of control--one that people across the political spectrum need to confront now.

. Without this testimony, we simply cannot grasp what is going on.


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Scores: How I Opened the Hottest Strip Club in New York City, Was Extorted out of Millions by the Gambino Family, and Became One of the Most Successful Mafia Informants in FBI History

. A resourceful lawyer at one of the city’s most respected firms, blutrich fell into the skin trade almost by accident, but it was his legal savvy that made Scores the first club in Manhattan to feature lap dances and enabled him to neatly sidestep a law requiring dancers to wear pasties by instead covering their nipples with latex paint.

. In this hilarious and fascinating account, mafia sit-downs, Michael Blutrich takes you inside star-studded 1990s New York, and the witness protection program. Soon scores, the club howard stern called “like being in a candy shop, ” was a home away from home for everyone from sports superstars and Oscar-winning actors to pop singers and political notables alike.

The catch? the club was smack dab in John Gotti’s territory, and the mafia wanted a piece of the action. In his memoir, blutrich recounts in detail how his beloved club became a hub for the mafia, and how he found himself caught up in an FBI investigation, sorely struggling to juggle roles of business owner and undercover spy.

As his life spiraled out of control, Blutrich would face the loss of almost everything dear to him. A gay man who created New York’s most notorious den of heterosexuality. In scores, blutrich finally tells all—from triumph to betrayal—in his own funny, self-deprecating voice. The gambino family doesn’t take no for an answer.

An anxious, anything-but-hardboiled lawyer who became one of the most successful undercover mob informants in history.


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Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime

A charismatic combat veteran, Sommer’s manipulative tendencies combined with a magnetic personality pulled Ben into a relationship that put his loyalties to the test.       . Army ranger, and fight terrorists for his country. In the first hours of his final leave before deployment to Iraq, Alex was supposed to fly home to see his family and beloved girlfriend.

Instead, drove to a local bank in Tacoma, he got into his car with two fellow soldiers and two strangers, and committed armed robbery. The question that haunted the entire blum family was:  why?  Why would he ruin his life in such a spectacularly foolish way?     At first, Alex insisted he thought the robbery was just another exercise in the famously daunting Ranger program.

His attorney presented a case based on the theory that the Ranger indoctrination mirrored that of a cult. In the midst of his own personal crisis, delved into these mysteries, Alex’s first cousin, and in the hopes of helping both Alex and his splintering family cope, Ben Blum, growing closer to Alex in the process.

As he probed further, ben began to question not only Alex, Luke Elliot Sommer, but the influence of his superior, the man who planned the robbery. He had one goal in life: endure a brutally difficult selection program, become a U. S. He poured everything into achieving his dream.


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