The last narco : inside the hunt for El Chapo, the world's most wanted drug lord /

Beith, Malcolm.

The last narco : inside the hunt for El Chapo, the world's most wanted drug lord / Malcolm Beith. - New York : Grove Press, c2010. - xxiv, 261 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-256) and index.

The great escape -- The blame game -- From Gomeros to gods -- The godfather -- Chapo's rise -- "Breaking the neck of destiny" -- The general -- The war -- Land grab -- Law, disorder -- The end of the alliance -- The ghost -- The new wave -- United States of Fear -- Sinaloa Inc. -- The end game -- Postscript.

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.

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Drug dealers--Mexico--Biography.
Drug traffic--History.--Mexico
Fugitives from justice--Mexico--Biography.
Police--Mexico.
Drug traffic--Mexico--Biography.
Drug traffic--History.--Mexico
Drug traffic--United States.


Mexico--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Mexico.

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