Searching for Significance among Drug Lords and Death Squads: The Covert Netherworld as Invisible Incubator for Illicit Commerce by Alfred W. McCoy

“…By deftly playing upon this netherworld’s politics and illicit commerce along the Burma-Thai borderlands, a regional ‘drug lord’ amassed sufficient local power to dominate the global heroin trade for over a decade and simultaneously sustain an ethnic revolt for nearly 15 years. …”
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Robert Ludlum's the Bourne retribution : a new Jason Bourne novel / by 594011 Lustbader, Eric author

“…""When Director Yadin learns of a mysterious connection between Ouyang Jidan, a senior member of China's Politburo, and a recently deceased Mexican drug lord, he asks Jason Bourne to investigate." Provided by publisher…”

HEAT RISES / by Castle, Richard, author 653420

“…The Bizzarre murder of a parish priest at a New York bondage club opens Nikki Heat's most thrilling and dangerous case so far, pitting her against New York's most vicious drug lord, an arrogant CIA contractor, and a shadowy death squad out to gun her down. …”

Un golpe al corazón de la violencia: Yuri Herrera by Alicia Llarena

“…Yuri Herrera’s Trabajos del reino does it instead the direct way, trough a talented narcocorridos-song writer, who works for a drug lord. His artist eyes disarmed the “vida narca” glamour, making visible his psychic violence in a literary purpose that flee, intentionally, from the common places of the theme, contributing to the awareness and denounce with the discourse and language of the “contramaquina”.…”
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Les narcocorridos du Movimiento Alterado : une poésie de la rue ? by Claude Chastagner

“…Mexican-American artists such as El Komander use polka or waltz tunes to describe in violent and explicit words the daily lives of drug lords. Most artists and record companies are located in California, from where the style is exported to Mexico. …”
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“The cultural anthropology of Latin American narcos: notes on showy consumption” by Amedeo Paparoni

“…The consumption stories elaborated by powerful drug lords can have social and criminal significance. …”
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Ponte City, Johannesburg: a history of appropriation and the appropriation of history by McKay, Harriet

“…Ponte is known, however, for having been quickly abandoned following the Soweto Uprising in 1976, after which it was reappropriated by black squatters—drug lords, pimps and gang bosses. Thus, Ponte was transformed from heavenly white vision to black hell. …”
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