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Zusatztext “In Bloodlines ! Melissa del Bosque has written a nonfiction thriller that reads better than the best crime novels. No one writes better about the dark side of life on the Texas-Mexico border! because no other writer understands it better than she does.” Informationen zum Autor Melissa del Bosque is an award-winning investigative journalist who has covered the U.S.-Mexico border region for the past two decades. Her work has been published in international and national publications including , Time , The Guardian and Marie Claire . Her work has also been featured in television and radio on Democracy Now!, MSNBC, PBS, the BBC and NPR. Currently, she is an investigative reporter with The Texas Observer and a Lannan reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund. Klappentext Drugs, money, cartels—these were what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo; instead he was deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Until one day he was asked to check out a tip from a source: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction for a record-topping price, and the buyer was Miguel Treviño, one of the leaders of the Zetas, Mexico’s most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested that Treviño 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 teamed up with Alma Perez, a more experienced agent, and, taking on impossible odds, set 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 U.S. federal agencies, and opens a new vista onto the changing nature of the drug war and its global expansion. Zusammenfassung The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader! Miguel Treviño 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 Treviño! one of the leaders of the Zetas! Mexico's most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested that Treviño 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. ...
