18 books like Narconomics

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Gangster warlords Ioan Grillo · 2016 · 377p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. 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… Shares: Drug control, Drug dealers, Drug traffic

Cocaína Magnus Linton · 2010 · ★ 4.0 · 275p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Describes the social, political, and economic effects of the illicit cocaine trade in Colombia since the death of Pablo Escobar, from the individual effect on destitute Colombian citizens to the nation's relations with its socialist Latin American neighbors. Shares: Drug control, Drug dealers, Drug traffic

Hotel Scarface Roben Farzad · 2017 · ★ 4.5 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers like Coconut Grove's Mutiny at Sailboat Bay. It was a hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami's cocaine cowboys heyday-- and an inspiration for the film, Scarface. Three waves of Cuban immigrants vied to dominate the trafficking, but as the kilos-- and bodies-- began to pile… Shares: Drug dealers, Drug traffic

Born Fi'dead Laurie Gunst · 1995 · 262p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Shares: Drug dealers, Drug traffic

El Narco Ioan Grillo · 2011 · ★ 4.1 · 321p · ≈ 10h · Moderate "The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high. Or is it? The United States throws Black Hawk helicopters, DEA assistance,… Shares: Drug dealers, Drug traffic

Terrorist-Criminal Nexus Jennifer L. Hesterman · 2013 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "We are currently faced with a new national security challenge that is both vexing and complex. The once clear lines between the international drug trade, terrorism, organized crime, domestic terror, and Mexican drug cartels are blurring as groups increasingly join forces to further individual interests and goals. The synergistic potential of the alliance between nonstate actors and terrorists is… Shares: Drug control, Drug traffic

Badlands C. J. Box · 2015 · ★ 4.1 · 278p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "Edgar Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box is back with a masterpiece of suspense set in a time and place that readers won't soon forget. Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective Cassie Dewell has been assigned as the new deputy sheriff of Grimstad-a place people used to be from, but were… Shares: Drug dealers, Drug traffic

The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares: Biography & Memoir

A history of autobiography in antiquity Georg Misch · 1950 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares: Biography & Memoir

Mr. Nice Howard Marks · 1996 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Mr Nicehttps://web.archive.org/web/20120714001218/http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b8d3bfed1 BFI Explore: Mr Nice] Retrieved 2013-04-13 (US title Mr. Nice) is a 2010 crime drama film written and directed by Bernard Rose, Mr Nice is in part a biopic, a loose film adaptation of Mr Nice, the cult 1997 autobiography by Howard Marks. The film features an ensemble cast starring Rhys Ifans as Howard Marks,… Shares: Biography & Memoir

Autobiography Anderson L Staff · 2001 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Saint Augustine of Hippo wrote ''Confessions'', the first Western autobiography ever written, around AD 400. Portrait by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th century.]] Shares: Biography & Memoir

Two Sisters Gore Vidal · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.” Shares: Biography & Memoir

Missing Persons Mary Evans · 1998 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A missing person is a person who has disappeared for usually unknown reasons Shares: Biography & Memoir

Marse Henry : An Autobiography Henry Watterson · 1919 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature and driven by the intention of making all public domain books available in printed format again - worldwide. At tredition we believe that a great book never goes out of style. Several mostly non-profit literature projects provide content to tredition. To support their good work,… Shares: Biography & Memoir

Money to Burn William D. Cohan · 689p · ≈ 22h · Moderate Shares: Biography & Memoir

No More Tears Gardiner Harris · 2025 · ★ 4.4 · 464p · ≈ 15h · Moderate hard rock Shares: Biography & Memoir

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense Lawrence G. McDonald & Patrick Robinson Shares: Biography & Memoir

The Infinity Machine Sebastian Mallaby · 2026 · ★ 4.8 Even by the standard of a tech industry stacked with so-called geniuses, Demis Hassabis is a special case. Born poor in North London to immigrant parents, a chess prodigy by age five and wizard coder in his teens, he turned down a seven figure offer before turning 18 to feed his insatiable scientific curiosity at Cambridge. Later, he added a neuroscience PhD to his computer science skills to… Shares: Biography & Memoir

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