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Drug Lord: A True Story

The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin

By: Terrence Poppa

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Drug Lord: A True Story

The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin

By: Terrence Poppa

?This book could function as an owner's manual for the Mexican drug cartels.”?Charles Bowden

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1933693851

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Cauldron of Wrath

By: Terrence Poppa

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Terrorists smuggle two nuclear bombs into the United States through a Mexican drug tunnel in a bold plot to destroy the United States. While world attention is riveted on the fiery destruction they aim to bring to downtown Los Angeles with the first nuke, the terrorists intend to detonate the second bomb at the bottom of an experimental NASA geothermal well located in a remote corner of Yellowstone National Park. The nuclear blast will rip open Yellowstone's sizzling caldera, triggering a massive eruption that will obliterate half of the United States. FBI agent Malcolm Hendricks, special agent in charge of a counterterrorism task force in Los Angeles, thwarts the LA bomb only seconds before it is detonated near USC. He has learned the identity of the terror leader, Abu Hadi al-Maliki, through actions he took in defiance of his superiors in Washington. In recognition of his bold work, the president puts him in charge of finding Maliki and the second nuke, but the only clue Hendricks has to go on is a trail of bodies that ends in Idaho near Yellowstone. As Hendricks unleashes every resource available to find Maliki and the second bomb, the terror leader and his zealots attack the geothermal site, killing most of the drilling rig workers and many of the journalists who arrive by bus to report on the project. Trained for the mission to operate a drilling rig, Maliki and his commandos begin lowering the bomb two miles to the bottom of the NASA well. All that stands in the way of the fanatical plot to destroy America are Hendricks' relentless efforts to find him, the resourcefulness of the NASA spokeswoman who brought the doomed journalists to the site, and the brave resistance of the few rig workers who survive Maliki's brutal assault.

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Drug Lord

A True Story - The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin

By: Terrence E. Poppa,Charles Bowden

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Drug Lord

A True Story - The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin

By: Terrence E. Poppa,Charles Bowden

Twenty years after writing Drug Lord, Terrence Poppa decided the information in his book was more important than ever. In an important interview with the Texas Tribune, Poppa explains that ''the Mexico that I wrote about in the book describes the old order of things: Mexico under the PRI. In that sense, the book was out of date, because how drug trafficking operated under the PRI is completely different than how it works today in a new Mexico, under the democratically transformed Mexico...There has been a decoupling of the highest levels of power from drug trafficking now. It's important for people to understand that, so I had to bring the book up to date.

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1459617509

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9781459617506

Drug Lord

The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin : a True Story

By: Terrence E. Poppa

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Drug Lord

The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin : a True Story

By: Terrence E. Poppa

Pablo Acosta, born in abject poverty in Mexico, became drug czar of Ojinaga across the border from the Big Bend country of Texas. He launched his career by smuggling marijuana and heroin into the U.S., later adding cocaine, and forging an alliance with Columbian drug traders. At the peak, he may have controlled 60% of the coke trafficked into the U.S., according to Poppa. The author shows that Acosta consolidated his power by murdering rivals, corrupting local police and soldiers, distributing money to the poor and contributing generously to civic projects. Eventually, however, he became a coke addict; his iron entrepreneurial grip slipped; and he was tracked down and killed in 1987 by an international narcotic strike force. Poppa interviewed the drug lord in 1986 for the El Paso Herald-Post and bases this enlightening book in part on those talks.

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0966443004

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Drug Lord

A True Story - The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin

By: Terrence E. Poppa,Charles Bowden

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A True Story - The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin

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Drug Lord: A True Story

The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin

By: Terrence E. Poppa

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Drug Lord: A True Story

The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin

By: Terrence E. Poppa

Drug Lord is the real thing. Raw, immediate, indispensable."—Don Winslow, author of The Power of Dog and California Fire and Life "The [drug smuggling] business goes on, the slaughtered dead pile up, the US agencies continue to ratchet up their budgets, the prisons grow larger and all the real rules of the game are in this book, some kind of masterpiece."—Charles Bowden, from the introduction "Pablo Acosta was a living legend in his Mexican border town of Ojinaga. He smuggled tremendous amounts of drugs into the United States; he survived numerous attempts on his power—and his life—by rivals; and he blessed the town with charity and civic improvements. He was finally slain in 1987 during a raid by Mexican officials with the cooperation of US law enforcement. Poppa has turned out a detailed and exciting book, covering in depth Acosta's life; the other drug factions that battled with him; the village of Ojinaga; and the logistics of the drug operation. The result is a nonfiction account with enough greed, treachery, shoot-outs, and government corruption to fascinate true crime and crime fiction readers alike. Highly recommended."—Library Journal Terrence E. Poppa, an award-winning journalist, was a finalist for a 1987 Pulitzer Prize for his investigations into the connection between crime and government in Mexico. He was featured in Standoff in Mexico, a PBS production about fraudulent elections in Mexico. Due to his unique insights into the world of Mexican drug trafficking, Poppa has been widely interviewed on radio and television, including Larry King Live and The O'Reilly Factor.

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Cinco Puntos Press

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1935955004

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9781935955009

Cuba Si!

Bringing it All Back Home, Last Gasps; Three Plays

By: Terrence McNally

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Cuba Si!

Bringing it All Back Home, Last Gasps; Three Plays

By: Terrence McNally

THE STORIES: ¡CUBA SI! Waiting for the revolution that she feels certain is near at hand, Cuba, a supporter of Fidel Castro, has set up camp in New York's Central Park. Having become something of a tourist attraction, she is interviewed by a report

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Dramatists Play Service Inc

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0822202573

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9780822202578

The Silent Partner

By: Terrence King

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The Silent Partner

By: Terrence King

Homer, a bold and smart-mouthed angel, has been in isolation for nine-hundred years. She misbehaves and tests the boundaries of God, which was what put her in isolation in the first place--. Despite her fussiness and track record of failure, she's sent to Earth to do what needs to be done. Her mission is to help Tom Summers, a struggling columnist for an expanding magazine empire in Los Angeles -- to Homer, the epicenter of Western egocentrism and inauthenticity. She must help him publish a book that would ultimately change Earth's fate".

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Trafford Publishing

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1466916397

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9781466916395

The Ritz

A New Comedy

By: Terrence McNally

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The Ritz

A New Comedy

By: Terrence McNally

This hilarious farce is set in a gay bathhouse of the title. When Gaetano Proclo, a hapless, middle-aged, overweight, very married man takes it on the lam from his mafioso brother-in-law, Carmine Vespucci, he ducks into "The Ritz" the last place anyone would look for him. What he encounters there sets the scene for an old-fashioned door slamming farce, albeit with towel-clad chubby chasers, bumbling detectives, and Googie Gomez, an over-the-top would be Bette Midler looking for her big break...

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573615004

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9780573615009

The Dark Sunrise

By: Terrence McCauley

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The Dark Sunrise

By: Terrence McCauley

U.S. Marshal Aaron Mackey and Deputy Billy Sunday, after a crime baron and his kill-crazy crew are set free, decide to appoint themselves judge, jury and executioners.

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Pinnacle

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0786046546

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9780786046546

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