Jack Riley: 7 books

DEA Agent Jack Riley, "[Chicago's] most famous federal agent since the days of The Untouchables" (-**Rolling Stone)**tells the inside story of his 30-year hunt for the drug kingpin known as El Chapo, and reveals the true causes of the American opioid epidemic. Jack Riley, grandson...

Cocaine has had a long and prominent position in the history of American substance abuse. As far back as the late 1800s cocaine was commonly found hi patent medicines, elixirs, and, astonishingly, in the earliest versions of Coca-Cola. Eventually, the potency of cocaine was recognized and its purveyors...

The security situation in Mexico has deteriorated in recent years. To help inform debate on the future of U.S.-Mexico relations, this study examined a set of U.S. policy options and potential policy priorities that hold promise for Mexico?s security.

To assess whether an initiative to reduce gun violence that had been successful in Boston could be adapted for use elsewhere, researchers selected an East Los Angeles area for a similar intervention that was to include both law enforcement and social service components. Although the latter component...

Deutsche und internationale Autoren stellt der Herausgeber, der bereits erfolgreiche Titel für Bastei, Heyne und dtv zusammenstellte, in seiner ultimativen Anthologie zum Cthulhu-Mythos H. P. Lovecrafts vor. Original- und deutsche Erstveröffentlichungen von Hans Dieter Römer, Gary Lovisi, David...

There has been explosive progress in the economic theory of uncertainty and information in the past few decades. This subject is now taught not only in departments of economics but also in professional schools and programs oriented toward business, government and administration, and public policy....

Clay County extends from the banks of the Tombigbee River in the east across Mississippi's fertile Black Prairie, the Kilgore Hills, and ends in the Flatwoods to the west. West Point, the county seat, lies in the eastern part of the county in the midst of the Black Prairie and was first developed...