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El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin

10 best books like El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assassin (Molly Molloy): To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War, The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku, Original Letters from India, The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord, The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems, Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century, Government, Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker, The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon of the Triads, The Ancient Maya

To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War
AuthorJohn Gibler
ISBN0872865177
Combining on the ground reporting and in-depth discussions with people on the frontlines of Mexico's drug war, To Die in Mexico tells behind the scenes stories that address the causes and consequences of Mexico's multibillion-dollar drug-trafficking business. John Gibler looks beyond the cops-and-robbers...
The Spring of My Life and Selected Haiku
AuthorKobayashi Issa
ISBN1570621446
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), along with Basho and Buson, is considered one of the three greatest haiku poets of Japan, known for his attention to poignant detail and his playful sense of humor. Issa's most-loved work, The Spring of My Life, is an autobiographical sketch of linked prose and haiku in the...
Original Letters from India
AuthorEliza Fay
ISBN1590173368
Eliza Fay’s origins are obscure; she was not beautiful, rich, or outlandishly accomplished. Yet the letters she wrote from her 1779 voyage across the globe captivated E. M. Forster, who arranged for their British publication in 1925. The letters have been delighting readers ever since with their...
The Last Narco: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo, the World's Most Wanted Drug Lord
AuthorMalcolm Beith
ISBN0802119522
The dense hills of Sinaloa, Mexico, are home to the most powerful drug lord since Pablo Escobar: Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Guzman is among the world’s ten most wanted men and also appeared on Forbes magazine’s 2009 billionaire list. With his massive wealth, his army of professional killers,...
The Shape of the Journey: New & Collected Poems
AuthorJim Harrison
ISBN1556590954
Astonishing poetry collection. One of the few poets that I read cover to cover and then again few more times, untill I know each poem by heart.

Looking Forward to Age

I will walk down to a marina
on a hot day and not go out to sea.

I will go to bed and get up early,
and carry...
Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century
AuthorDaniel Hernandez
ISBN1416577033
MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion,...
Government
AuthorB. Traven
In the 1930s B. Traven wrote an epic of the birth of the Mexican revolution in what have become known as the "Jungle Novels." Government is the first of the six novels that comprise the series.

Depicting the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico, the novel tells...
Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker
AuthorDorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 - June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles.

From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a...
The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon of the Triads
AuthorMartin Booth
ISBN0786708697
With unflinching candor, Martin Booth -- Booker Prize nominee and author of the critically acclaimed Opium: A History -- here unfolds the full story of the Chinese Triads, which, according to UN sources, now pose the greatest potential criminal threat the world has ever known. From San Francisco to...
The Ancient Maya
AuthorRobert J. Sharer
ISBN0804748179
This book traces the evolution of Maya civilization through the Pre-Columbian era, a span of some 2,500 years from the origins of complex society within Mesoamerica to the end of the Pre-Columbian world with the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. The sixth edition presents new archaeological evidence...
Here's to You, Jesusa!
AuthorElena Poniatowska
ISBN0142001228
Jesusa is a tough, fiery character based on a real working-class Mexican woman whose life spanned some of the seminal events of early twentieth-century Mexican history. Having joined a cavalry unit during the Mexican Revolution, she finds herself at the Revolution's end in Mexico City, far from her...
Yucatan Before and After the Conquest
AuthorDiego de Landa
ISBN0486236226
These people also used certain characters or letters, with which they wrote in their books about the antiquities and their sciences. We found a great number of books in these letters and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the devil we burned them all, which they took most...
Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
AuthorCharles Bowden
ISBN0743244575
Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Beneath all the policy...
Amexica: War Along the Borderline
AuthorEd Vulliamy
ISBN0374104417
Amexica is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border—“a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither”—as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch there.

In 2009, after reporting from the border...
Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas
AuthorElijah Wald
ISBN0060505109
This book explores the world in which one of the oddest and most interesting trends in Latin music over the last 30 years has risen, the narcocorrido. Narcocorridos are Mexican ballads about the daring deeds of cross-border drug traffickers. Tracing the narcocorrido from its birth during the Mexican...
Drug Lord: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin
AuthorTerrence E. Poppa
ISBN0966443004
An expose of the connections between crime and government in Mexico, this is the story of Pablo Acosta, the notorious scar-faced Mexican drug lord. Controlling crime along 250 miles of the Rio Grande, he was responsible for creating a narcotics hub in northern Mexico that smuggled 60 tons of cocaine...
I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary
AuthorJ.M.R. Higgs
ISBN1569803153
President Nixon called him the most dangerous man in America, while Terence McKenna believed he made more people happy than anyone else in history. Few People have divided opinion as strongly as Dr. Timothy Leary. Leary, a brilliant behavioral psychologist, persuaded millions to tune in, turn on,...
Escobar: The Inside Story Of Pablo Escobar, The World's Most Powerful Criminal
AuthorRoberto Escobar Gaviria
ISBN0340951095
Murderer, philanthropist, drug dealer, politician, devil, saint: many words have been used to describe Pablo Escobar, but one is irrefutable - legend. For the poor of Colombia, he was their Robin Hood, a man whose greatness lay not in his crimes, but in his charity; for the Colombian rich he was just...
This Is for the Mara Salvatrucha: Inside the MS-13, America's Most Violent Gang
AuthorSamuel Logan
ISBN1401323243
Like any American teenager, Brenda Paz spent much of her time with her friends. They would go to parties, listen to music, and show off their cars late into the night. But Brenda and her friends belonged to the Mara Salvatrucha--the MS-13--the most violent gang in America, and in addition to enjoying...
The Stone Roses: War and Peace
AuthorSimon Spence
The Stone Roses captures the magic—and chaos—behind the UK band's rise, fall, and recent resurrection.

The iconic Brit pop band The Stone Roses became an overnight sensation when their 1989 eponymous album went double platinum. It was a recording that is still often listed as...
More Terrible Than Death: Drugs, Violence, and America's War in Colombia
AuthorRobin Kirk
ISBN1586482076
More Terrible Than Death is a gripping work that maps the dramatic new relationship between the United States and Colombia in human terms, using portraits of the Colombians and Americans involved, the author's experiences in Colombia as a writer and human rights investigator and an insider's analysis...
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