The last narco : inside the hunt for El Chapo, the world's most wanted drug lord / Malcolm Beith.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Grove Press, c2010.Description: xxiv, 261 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780802119520
- 0802119522
- Chapo, 1957-
- Drug dealers -- Mexico -- Biography
- Drug traffic -- Mexico -- History
- Fugitives from justice -- Mexico -- Biography
- Police -- Mexico
- Mexico -- Foreign relations -- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Mexico
- Chapo, 1957-
- Drug traffic -- Mexico -- Biography
- Drug traffic -- Mexico -- History
- Drug traffic -- United States
- 364.1770972 B 22
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.
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.