Query: Non-fiction books that are about the Colombian drug cartels or illegal drug trade
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Freeway Rick Ross (book)
The French Connection (book)
Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars
Chasing the Scream
Killing Peace: Colombia's Conflict and the Failure of U.S. Intervention
Elite da Tropa
Opium Nation
Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography
News of a Kidnapping
Dark Alliance (book)
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
Killing Pablo
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
Snowblind (book)
Kill the Messenger (Schou book)
Evidence from documents: Freeway Rick Ross (book): '''''Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography''''' is a 2014 memoir by former drug kingpin Rick Ross, co-authored by American crime writer Cathy Scott, about the rise and fall of Ross, in the 1980s and '90s, to his 2009 release from prison.
The French Connection (book): '''''The French Connection''''', also known as '''''The French Connection: The World's Most Crucial Narcotics Investigation''''' and '''''The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy''''', is a nonfiction book
Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars: a non-fiction book about the Mexican drug war written by Sylvia Longmire, an independent consultant, freelance writer, and former Air Force captain. In her book, Longmire gives an overview of Mexico's drug war and describes the impact it has on the United States' national security. Drawing from her experience as an intelligence analyst of drug trafficking and border security, the author details the holes of the current drug policy of both the United States and Mexico.
Chasing the Scream: Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs''''' is a book by Johann Hari examining the history and impact of drug criminalisation, collectively known as "the War on Drugs".
Killing Peace: Colombia's Conflict and the Failure of U.S. Intervention: Over the past half-century, Colombia has been plagued by violence—its people caught in the middle of a civil conflict raging between the army, leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, narco-traffickers, and U.S. anti-drug warriors.
Opium Nation: The author travels throughout Afghanistan to talk with individuals part of the opium production in Afghanistan, centering on women's role in it.
Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography: '''''Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography''''' () is a 2002 non-fiction book about the history of cocaine, written by Dominic Streatfeild and published by Diane Publishing Company. The 2003 paperback edition () was published by Picador. The book investigates cocaine from the chewing of the coca leaf to the large scale trafficking of cocaine into the United States.
News of a Kidnapping: '''''News of a Kidnapping''''' (original Spanish title: ''Noticia de un secuestro'') is a non-fiction book by Gabriel García Márquez. It was first published in Spanish in 1996, with an English translation released in 1997.
The book recounts the kidnapping, imprisonment, and eventual release of a handful of prominent figures in Colombia in the early 1990s by the Medellín Cartel, a drug cartel founded and operated by Pablo Escobar.
Dark Alliance (book): '''''Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion''''' is a 1998 book by journalist Gary Webb. The book is based on "Dark Alliance", Webb's three-part investigative series published in the ''San Jose Mercury News'' in August 1996. The original series claimed that, in order to help raise funds for efforts against the Nicaraguan Sandinista government, the CIA supported cocaine trafficking into the US by top members of Nicaraguan Contra Rebel organizations and allowed the subsequent crack epidemic to spread in Los Angeles. The book expands on the series and recounts media reaction to Webb's original newspaper exposé.
El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency: '''''El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency''''' is a non-fiction book of the Mexican drug war written by Ioan Grillo. In ''El Narco'', Grillo takes a close look at the Mexican drug trade, starting with the term "El Narco", which has come to represent the vast, faceless criminal network of drug traffickers who cast a murderous shadow over Mexico. The book covers the frontline of the Mexican drug war
Killing Pablo: '''''Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw''''' (2001) is a book by Mark Bowden that details the efforts by the governments of the United States and Colombia, their respective military and intelligence forces, and Los Pepes to stop illegal activities committed by Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and his subordinates. It relates how Escobar was killed and his cartel dismantled. Bowden originally reported this story in a 31-part series published in ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'' and in a companion documentary of the same title.
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia: '''''The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia''''' is a 1972 non-fiction book on heroin trafficking in Southeast Asia and the CIA complicity and aid to the Southeast Asian opium/heroin trade. Written by Alfred W. McCoy, the book covers the period from World War II to the Vietnam War.
''Politics of Heroin'' documents CIA complicity and aid to the Southeast Asian opium/heroin trade. The book explained that most of the world's heroin was produced in the Golden Triangle and transported by the United States.


It is transported in the planes, vehicles, and other conveyances supplied by the United States. The profit from the trade has been going into the pockets of some of our best friends in Southeast Asia. The charge concludes with the statement that the traffic is being carried on with the indifference if not the closed-eye compliance of some American officials, and there is no likelihood of its being shut down in the foreseeable future.


Air America, covertly owned and operated by the CIA, was used to transport the illicit drugs.
Snowblind (book): by American author Robert Sabbag in 1976 is a non-fiction account about a character named Zachary Swan who turned his hand to smuggling cocaine from Colombia into the US. Set in the 1970s before organised crime took over the cocaine trade, it is based primarily in New York City and Bogotá and features a variety of colourful characters. Unlike other smugglers at the time Swan concocted a vast array of scams designed both to evade customs officials and protect his 'employees' from prosecution, all of which are highly imaginative and entertaining.
Kill the Messenger (Schou book): '''''Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb''''' (New York: Nation Books, 2006) is a biography of investigative journalist Gary Webb, focusing on his 1996 "Dark Alliance" investigative series in the ''San Jose Mercury News''. The series linked the 1980s' crack cocaine trade in the United States and the CIA-backed Nicaraguan Contras.


''Kill the Messenger'' was adapted into a 2014 film by the same name.