Cartel Book Recommendation

FormerBully

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I am making a different post because this deals with books and Mexico, but if you are looking for a book to learn about the rise of Cartels I recommend The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow. He spent over 6 years on research and tells the story of the DEA involvement with War on Drugs. It is a three book series, but pretty accurate to what happen.
 
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AnesthesiaDawg

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I am making a different post because this deals with books and Mexico, but if you are looking for a book to learn about the rise of Cartels I recommend The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow. He spent over 6 years on research and tells the story of the DEA involvement with War on Drugs. It is a three book series, but pretty accurate to what happen.
Yeah, the Power of the Dog Trilogy was great and all three books were very easy reads.
 
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mcdawg22

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I’m not a book guy, so I love Narcos. I’m sure they take liberties with the stories but reading about the Kiki Camarena stuff it seems fairly accurate. I’m hoping they keep going with it because it ended with the rise of Chapo.
 
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jethreauxdawg

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I’m not a book guy, so I love Narcos. I’m sure they take liberties with the stories but reading about the Kiki Camarena stuff it seems fairly accurate. I’m hoping they keep going with it because it ended with the rise of Chapo.
I think they were working on another season. The crew who went to scout locations ended up getting killed by the cartel. That slowed production.
 

DoggieDaddy13

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drugs war money.jpg Old, but still one of the clearest and best, Scott brilliantly researched book illuminates the underlying forces that drive U.S. global policy from Vietnam to Colombia and Afghanistan and Iraq. He brings to light the intertwined patterns of drugs, oil politics, and intelligence networks that have been so central to the larger workings of U.S. intervention and escalation in Third World countries through alliances with drug-trafficking proxies. The exercise of power by parapolitics, often metastasizes into deep politics - the interplay of unacknowledged forces that spin out of the control of the original policy initiators. Scott contends that we must recognize that U.S. influence is grounded not just in military and economic superiority but also in so-called soft power.
 
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bully12

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Not about cartels, but I just finished "Tin Men" by the late Nelson DeMille and his son, Alex DeMille. Good read.
 

Bowdawg

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If you are into the drug story thing listen to the first season of “Deep Cover” podcast. It’s takes some unreal turns with drugs in the US, Pam Anderson and Tommy Lee, all the way to Pablo N. Great listen.