Our list of some of the best Drug Cartel books & series in recent years. Get inspired by one or more of the following books.
- Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel (2017)
- Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel (2017)
- The Cartel (Power of the Dog Series) (2017)
- Making Peace in Drug Wars: Crackdowns and Cartels in Latin America (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) (2017)
- The Cartel Deluxe Edition: Books 1-3 (2018)
- The Infiltrator: The True Story of One Man Against the Biggest Drug Cartel in History (2016)
- Narcomics: Basics on How to Successfully Run a Drug Cartel (J.D. Rockefeller’s Book Club) (2016)
- The Cali Cartel: Beyond Narcos (War on Drugs) (2017)
- El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency (2012)
- Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin (2010)
- A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War” (2016)
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel (2017)
What drug lords learned from big businessHow does a budding cartel boss succeed (and survive) in the $300 billion illegal drug business? By learning from the best, of course.
Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel (2017)
The tale of two American teenagers recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and the Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unstoppable. “A hell of a story…undeniably gripping.” (The New York Times)In this astonishing story, journalist Dan Slater recounts the unforgettable odyssey of Gabriel Cardona. At first glance, Gabriel is the poster-boy American teenager: athletic, bright, handsome, and charismatic.
The Cartel (Power of the Dog Series) (2017)
It’s 2004. Adán Barrera, kingpin of El Federación, is languishing in a California federal prison. Ex-DEA agent Art Keller passes his days in a monastery, having lost everything to his thirty-year blood feud with the drug lord. Then Barrera escapes. Now, there’s a two-million-dollar bounty on Keller’s head and no one else capable of taking Barrera down.
Making Peace in Drug Wars: Crackdowns and Cartels in Latin America (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) (2017)
Over the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America’s largest countries, with well-armed drug cartels fighting not only one another but the state itself. In Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil, leaders cracked down on cartels in hopes of restoring the rule of law and the state’s monopoly on force. Instead, cartels fought back – with bullets and bribes – driving spirals of violence and corruption that make mockeries of leaders’ state-building aims.
The Cartel Deluxe Edition: Books 1-3 (2018)
The port of Miami brings in millions of dollars’ worth of cocaine every year, and the Cartel controls eighty percent of it. The Diamond family is a force to be reckoned with, but all hell breaks loose when they lose their leader. The most ruthless gangster Miami has ever seen, Carter Diamond, leaves behind a wife, twin sons, a daughter, and a secret. The secret is his illegitimate son, Carter Jones.
The Infiltrator: The True Story of One Man Against the Biggest Drug Cartel in History (2016)
Robert Mazur spent years undercover infiltrating the Medellín Cartel’s criminal hierarchy. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended–some of whom still shape power across the globe–knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Together they partied in $1,000-per-night hotel suites, drank bottles of the world’s finest champagne, drove Rolls-Royce convertibles, and flew in private jets.
Narcomics: Basics on How to Successfully Run a Drug Cartel (J.D. Rockefeller’s Book Club) (2016)
With the help of this book, readers will be given new ideas on how drug cartels affect the humanity. Lots of people are now interested in drug cartels. Because of this, they are now looking for some ways to start their own cartel. This may sound alarming for some, but for people who see drug cartels as a way to conquer the world, they will definitely find ways to turn their ultimate vision into reality. This book will open your mind on how millionaires make their own drug cartel.
The Cali Cartel: Beyond Narcos (War on Drugs) (2017)
From the ashes of Pablo Escobar's empire rose an even bigger and more malevolent cartel. A new breed of sophisticated mobsters became the kings of cocaine.
El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency (2012)
The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs shattering storefronts; headless corpses heaped in town squares. And it is all because a few Americans are getting high. Or is it part of a worldwide shadow economy that threatens Mexico’s democracy?
Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin (2010)
“Drug Lord is the real thing. Raw, immediate, indispensable.”—Don Winslow, author of The Power of Dog and California Fire and Life”The [drug smuggling] business goes on, the slaughtered dead pile up, the US agencies continue to ratchet up their budgets, the prisons grow larger and all the real rules of the game are in this book, some kind of masterpiece.”—Charles Bowden, from the introduction”Pablo Acosta was a living legend in his Mexican border town of Ojinaga.
A Narco History: How the United States and Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War” (2016)
The term “Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico’s murderous cartels. It’s that ever since the U.S.
Best Drug Cartel Books You Should Enjoy
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Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture
Author(s): Oswaldo Zavala
ID: 3289984, Publisher: , Year: 2022, Size: 4 Mb, Format: pdf
The Barabanki Narcos: Busting India’s Most Notorious Drug Cartel
Author(s): Lal, Aloke
ID: 2978428, Publisher: Hachette India, Year: 2019, Size: 953 Kb, Format: epub
Hidden War: How Special Operations Game Wardens Are Reclaiming America's Wildlands from the Drug Cartels
Author(s): John Nores
ID: 3529346, Publisher: Gun Digest Media, Year: 2019, Size: 20 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are truly hot items according to Washington Post, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.