Drug Traffic Crime Fiction Booklists

Books about drug trafficking and drug traffickers.

    Fiction & Crime Fiction

  • Fade to Clear: Allen Choice
    Author: Chang, Leonard
    Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312308450 Date: 2004
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    As Allen Choice investigates the abduction of his ex-lover's niece, he unearths links to drug smuggling and money laundering, and becomes the target of even deadlier forces.
    Suggested Reading: Asian American Fiction Stars
    Updated 2.10.04
  • White Sands
    Author: Gandolfi, Simon
    Publisher: Harpercollins List Price: $23 ISBN: 0060187204 Date: 1997
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    Featuring his tough ex-British agent Trent, Gandolfi's thrillers have earned him a well-deserved place in the hearts of readers around the world. A young Bahamian boy witnesses the crash of a cocaine smuggler's plane and buries the drugs. Soon he is in over his head, caught between an international cartel and the law.
  • Already Dead
    Author: Johnson, Denis
    Publisher: HarperCollins List Price: $25 ISBN: 0060187379 Date: 1997
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    NYTBR Notable
    The author of Jesus' Son storms back into the public eye with his first novel in five years. Desperate, terrified, and alone, Nelson Fairchild Jr., owner of a thriving marijuana business in California's redwood country, faces his most deadly and dangerous scheme ever after he botches a $90,000 cocaine smuggling deal and must face the wrath of a major drug kingpin.
  • The Crime Trade
    Author: Kernick, Simon
    Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312340591 Date: 2005
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    When Operation Surgical Strike, a police sting designed to catch Colombian drug traffickers in the act of selling a large consignment of cocaine to undercover police officers, goes horribly wrong, suspicion quickly falls on one of the police officers involved: "Stegs" Jenner. Stegs is no ordinary cop. Something of a maverick, he has in the past played the role of a criminal just a little too well. Now suspended from duty, and with his close friend killed in the shoot-out, he determines to go at it alone.
    DI John Gallan and his partner Tina Boyd are part of the subsequent investigation that will take them to the heart of one of London's most notorious criminal gangs. What they cannot know is that they've also embarked on a journey that will lead one of them straight into the rifle sights of the enemy.
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    Updated 3.25.05
  • Five-Year Plan
    Author: Kerr, Philip
    Publisher: Henry Holt List Price: $ 23 ISBN: 0805051767 Date: 1998
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    For the Columbian cartel, Europe is a magnet. But landing their coke is another matter. When FBI agent Kate Fury gets a hot tip that the stuff is being shipped in a hollowed-out yacht hull via transport ferry, she knows she's onto the biggest collar in her career, in this new thriller by the author of Esau.
  • Soul Circus
    Author: Pelecanos, George P.
    Publisher: Little Brown $ 24.95 ISBN: 0316608432 Date: 2003
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    A Washington, D.C., crime overlord is fighting for his life in court. Two younger dealers are fighting for his territory, prestige, and millions of dollars in future profits. It takes only one slip--a kid going out of control with a rented pistol--to push friction closer to wholesale slaughter.
    Updated 2.4.03
  • Hard Revolution
    Author: Pelecanos, George P.
    Publisher: Little Brown $ 24.95 ISBN: 0316608971 Date: 2004
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    In this epic showdown from "one of the best crime novelists alive" (Dennis Lehane), police officer Derek Strange hunts his brother's killer through a city erupting with rage.
    Updated 1.5.04
  • Drama City
    Author: Pelecanos, George
    Publisher: Little Brown $ 24.95 ISBN: 0316608211 Date: 2005
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    In this blistering and soulful novel of the DC underworld, an ex-con finds himself caught between the light and the dark sides of the street after a malevolent young killer spoils his chances to stay straight.
    Updated 3.3.05
  • Queen of the South
    Author: Perez-Reverte, Arturo
    Publisher: Putnam $ 25.95 ISBN: 0399151850 Date: 2004
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    When Teresa Mendoza's drug smuggling boyfriend is killed, she must find inside herself a woman who is tough enough to inhabit a world as ugly and dangerous as that of the narcos--a woman she never before knew existed.
    Updated 4.10.04
  • Detour
    Author: Siegel, James
    Publisher: Warner $ 23.95 ISBN: 0446531855 Date: 2005
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    From the bestselling author of Derailed comes the adrenaline-charged story of one man who must betray everything he believes in to save his family.
    Updated 12.16.04
  • Chasing the Dragon
    Author: Stansberry, Domenic
    Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 0312324677 Date: 2004
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    With Chasing the Dragon, this acclaimed writer of modern noir introduces a new hard-boiled series set in San Francisco. The first novel is in clear homage to the masters of the genre, yet with an original, breathtaking voice all his own.
    Updated 9.27.04
  • The Life and Death of Bobby Z
    Author: Winlsow, Don
    Publisher: Knopf List Price: $ 22 ISBN: 0679454292 Date: 1997
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    When longtime loser Tim Kearney kills a Hell's Angel, it's his third strike. Life without parole follows, but with the Angels in prison, it looks to be a pretty short life. That's when the DEA makes him an offer: impersonate the late, legendary dope smuggler Bobby Z so the agency can trade him to Don Huertero - northern Mexico's drug kingpin - for a captured DEA agent. This raucous, hilarious vehicle is sure to catapult Winslow into an entirely new orbit.
  • The Power of the Dog
    Author: Winslow, Don
    Publisher: Knopf $ 25.95 ISBN: 0375405380 Date: 2005
    starLJ
    From the highly praised author of     The Life and Times of Bobby Z comes a huge, sprawling, breakneck-paced novel about America's drug world--its devastations and deliriums, its complexities of alliances and betrayals, its life-shaping effect on all the pawns, the kings, and the law enforcers who inhabit it both willingly and not.
    Updated 5.4.05

    • Nonfiction

  • Killing Pablo: The Hunt for Pablo the World's Greatest Outlaw
    by Bowden, Mark
    Publisher: Atlantic $ 25 ISBN: 0871137836 Date: 2001
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    In a gripping, up-close account, acclaimed journalist Mark Bowden exposes the details of how U.S. military and intelligence operatives covertly led the mission to find and kill the world's most dangerous outlaw: Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar. This riveting nonfiction technothriller is from the author of the bestselling Black Hawk Down.
    Suggested Reading: True Crime Stars
  • Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family
    Author: Bowden, Charles
    Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 27 ISBN: 0684853434 Date: 2002
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    In this real-life version of the award-winning movie, Traffic, one of the foremost writers of nonfiction today initiates an investigation into the shadows of the drug war.
    Suggested Reading: True Crime Stars
    Updated 10.28.02
  • The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
    Author: Simon, David
    Publisher: Broadway $ 27.50 ISBN: 0767900308 Date: 1997
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    Updated 6.9.05