- Title:
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Bloodlines (MP3)
- Written by:
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Melissa del Bosque
- Read by:
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Melissa del Bosque
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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10 hours 3 minutes
- MP3 size:
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437 MB
- Published:
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August 23 2018
- Available Date:
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August 23 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489422392
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; True Crime
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Bestselling author
The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel Trevino.
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 Trevino, one of the leaders of the Zetas, Mexico's most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested that Trevino 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.
With extensive access to investigative evidence and in-depth interviews with key players, 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.
'Fans of true crime and readers curious about the inner workings of Mexican drug cartels should enjoy this well-researched story.'
Kirkus Reviews, starred
'Following the intricacies of the Trevinos' sophisticated plan, the FBI's race against other federal agencies and the press to crack it, the gut-dropping dynamics of cartel coercion and retribution, and the eventual, dramatic trial, del Bosque recounts a true story that reads like crime fiction.'
Booklist, starred
'Absorbing ... In Bloodlines, the author gives us both the engrossing drama of a police procedural – from seeming dead ends to panic-stricken emergencies – and a scrupulous journalistic account of a significant episode in the drug wars.'
The Wall Street Journal