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1) Traffik
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2001], c1989
Language
English
Description
Docudrama following all aspects of the international illegal heroin industry.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Major Dirk Pitt is called to Greece to investigate the sabotage of a National Underwater Marine Agency mission to find a fish with links to the prehistoric era, and discovers a web of conspiracy involving drug smuggling, a beautiful woman, and a vengeful Nazi war criminal.
4) The mist
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Lizzie Rush uncovers evidence that thrill-seeking billionaire Norman Estabrook may be at the center of an international criminal network, she finds herself playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse. When someone sets off a bomb in Boston, Lizzie discovers that Estabrook as well as the FBI director's daughter have disappeared. Together with intelligence officer Will Davenport, Lizzie sets out to track down Estabrook.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Details the 1990 kidnappings of ten Columbian men and women by Medellin drug boss Pablo Escobar who planned to use the hostages as bargaining chips in negotiations with the government; focusing on the experiences of journalist Maruja Pachon who was held captive for six months.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Maria, a poor Columbian teenager, is desperate to leave a soul-crushing job. She accepts an offer to transport packets of heroin - which she swallows - to the United States. The ruthless world of drug trafficking proves to be more than she bargained for.
8) Macbeth
Author
Series
Publisher
Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert Dubois, an oil burner repairman from New Hampshire, goes to Florida to start a new life and becomes involved in smuggling illegal aliens. Vanise Dorsinville flees Haiti to join an uncle in Florida. Their fates become intertwined in a shattering climax.
10) Blow
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the life of George Jung, the man who established the cocaine market in the United States.
11) Black Out
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Nederlands
Description
If Guy Ritchie made THE HANGOVER in Amsterdam, it might look something like Black Out, an audacious crime thriller laced with colorful lowlifes, tough femmes fatales, corrupt cops, and outbursts of extreme violence. On the day before his wedding, retired criminal Jos wakes up next to a murdered man with no recollection of what happened the night before. He soon discovers that a group of gangsters have pinned him as the lone suspect in the theft of...
13) Savages
Publisher
Universal Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben, a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon, a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry, raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia. Life is idyllic in their Southern California town, until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them.
14) Fallon's wake
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Randy Lee Eickhoff is one of today's most treasured Irish-American scholar/authors. His translations of the Irish national epics The Raid and The Feast have won him praise as a poet and historian while his books on famous figures from America's past-Bowie and The Fourth Horseman show his talents as a storyteller.
Tom Fallon is an ex-IRA assassin who is drawn back into the movement in an attempt to stop drugs from being shipped into Ireland. But,...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A study of the escalating war on drugs in the U.S. since it was first made a political issue by Richard Nixon in 1968, looking at the policies the author labels as costly, destructive and ineffective, and offering advice on plotting a more humane, cost-effective drug program.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific flash of violence changes his life forever." --
18) Gatekeeper
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When in the course of a week a young heroin addict is gunned down while trying to rob a convenience store, a narcotics dealer is found hanging from a bridge, and the granddaughter of a political bigwig dies of an overdose, Vermont detective Joe Gunther vows to stop the flow of drugs into his beloved state.
19) Layer cake
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
The 2004 drama about a successful cocaine dealer associated with England's Mafia elite who is asked to handle the sale of a million hits of Ecstasy.
20) Leaves of grass
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
An Ivy League professor is lured back to his Oklahoma hometown, where his twin brother, a small-time pot grower, has concocted a scheme to take down a local drug lord.
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