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Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, reasonably comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse...
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In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin--the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin--to the veins of people across the United States.
3) Tejano
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"Desperate for money to afford the treatment that will save his grandfather's life, Javi crosses into Mexico and meets with Lorena's brother, Adelio. Adelio leads Javi to Gloria, the head of a cartel, who agrees to let Javi be a drug mule, but there is a catch. Javi is to walk across the border wearing a cast made of cocaine. For the sake of his grandfather, Javi decides to go through with it. From there Javi's story becomes one of survival as he...
4) The marksman
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Jim is a former Marine who lives a solitary life as a rancher along the Arizona-Mexican border, but his peaceful existence soon comes crashing down when he tries to protect a boy on the run from members of a vicious cartel. When the boy's mother asks him to take her son to her family in Chicago, the two hit the road with the cartel's assassins in pursuit.
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