The last narco
Subtitle: inside the hunt for El Chapo, the world's most wanted drug lord
By: Malcolm Beith
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780802119520
Subjects: Drug dealers; Drug traffic; Police; Fugitives from justice; Biography; Foreign relations; History
Description: A courageous young journalist takes his readers deep inside the hunt for the most powerful, feared, and charismatic drug lord in the world---Mexico's Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman---and tells the full story of the drug trade over the past thirty years.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: The great escape; title: The blame game; title: From Gomeros to gods; title: The godfather; title: Chapo's rise; title: "Breaking the neck of destiny"; title: The general; title: The war; title: Land grab; title: Law, disorder; title: The end of the alliance; title: The ghost; title: The new wave; title: United States of Fear; title: Sinaloa Inc.; title: The end game; title: Postscript.