Bloodlines - How the FBI took on Mexico's most violent drugs cartel by Melissa Del Bosque

Bloodlines - How the FBI took on Mexico's most violent drugs cartel by Melissa Del Bosque

THE RIVETING TRUE STORY OF HOW THE FBI BROUGHT DOWN THE FEARSOME MIGUEL TREVIÑO, LEADER OF LOS ZETAS, MEXICO'S MOST VIOLENT DRUG CARTEL. Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he's deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is asked to check out an anonymous tip: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction house for a record-topping price, and the buyer was Miguel Treviño, one of the leaders of the Zetas, Mexico's most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested that Treviño was laundering money through American quarter horse racing. If this was true, it offered a rookie like Lawson the perfect opportunity to infiltrate the cartel. Lawson teams up with a more experienced agent, Alma Perez, and, taking on impossible odds, sets out to take down one of the world's most fearsome drug lords. In Bloodlines, Emmy and National Magazine Award-winning journalist Melissa del Bosque follows Lawson and Perez's harrowing attempt to dismantle a cartel leader's American racing dynasty built on extortion and blood money. Throwing back the curtain on the inner workings of cartel kingpins and law enforcement agencies, del Bosque turns more than three years of research and her decades of reporting on Mexico and the border into a gripping narrative about greed and corruption. Bloodlines offers us an unprecedented look at the inner workings of the Zetas and US federal agencies, and opens a new vista onto the changing nature of the drug war and its global expansion.

Melissa del Bosque is an Emmy and National Magazine Award-winning investigative journalist who has written about the U.S.-Mexico border region since 1998. Her work has been featured in the Guardian, Time and Marie Claire, and on MSNBC, PBS, the BBC and NPR. She is a Lannan reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute.

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ISBN 13	9781786069528
ISBN 10	1786069520
Title	Bloodlines - How the FBI took on Mexico's most violent drugs cartel
Author	Melissa Del Bosque
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	John Blake Publishing Ltd
Year published	2018-08-23
Number of pages	432
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