Drugs trade & trafficking books

Presents a study grounded in the transnational geography and political economy of the coca-leaf and coca-derived...  Read More >>

How does the real life of Frank Lucas compare to the Hollywood creation American Gangster starring Danzel Washington...  Read More >>

A sense of scale is a prerequisite to thinking sensibly about illicit drug markets. For example, knowing whether...  Read More >>

Exploring the development of heroin smuggling in Turkey since the 1920s, Ryan Gingeras uses newly declassified documents...  Read More >>

Winner of the British Society of Criminology Book Prize, 2015 Fleetwood explores how women become involved in trafficking,...  Read More >>

On the verge of a big break in modelling, Miss SA finalist, 21-year-old Vanessa Goosen is caught up in every traveller's...  Read More >>

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Addressing drug use and abuse as a global phenomenon, this text draws on contemporary and international research...  Read More >>

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Over the years, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless...  Read More >>

Cocaine Confidential goes inside the lives of the coca farmers, the jungle sweat-shop workers, the smugglers, the...  Read More >>

This text offers an authoritative and much-needed overview of the range of issues associated with drugs-related...  Read More >>

This is the inside story of how a family feud became a grab for a multi-billion-dollar prize. It is also the author's...  Read More >>

This text offers an authoritative and much-needed overview of the range of issues associated with drugs-related...  Read More >>

Going beyond the newspapers, Killer Weed examines how legal, political, and civil initiatives that have emerged...  Read More >>

Kathryn Bonella lifts the lid on Bali's narcotics underworld.  Read More >>

Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines is both a fascinating firsthand account of the counterfeit...  Read More >>

Wensley Clarkson explores the dark and sinister side of the multi-billion-pound hash smuggling business: one fuelled...  Read More >>

Going beyond the newspapers, Killer Weed examines how legal, political, and civil initiatives that have emerged...  Read More >>

In the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture - built...  Read More >>

This book examines Mexico's drug war from many angles, exploring the causes, the government and military responses,...  Read More >>

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"Located on the left bank of the Chao Phya River, Thailand's capital, Krungthep, known as Bangkok to Westerners...  Read More >>

Examines how the lives of dispossessed men and women are affected by the rise of narco-trafficking along the US...  Read More >>

"Forty years after Richard Nixon declared a ""War on Drugs,"" this sobering book offers views of the ""narco wars""...  Read More >>