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Author Acosta, Hipolito.

Title The shadow catcher : a U.S. agent infiltrates Mexico's deadly crime cartels / Hipolito Acosta with Lisa Pulitzer.

Imprint New York : Atria Books, ©2012.

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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  363.285 AC    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 255 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents Playing pollo from Ciudad Juarez to Chicago -- On the border : the beginning -- Chicago, my kind of town -- The Castillo family -- Takedown in Chicago -- Back home in El Paso -- Manuel and Sonia Ramirez -- Undercover again : South of the Border -- El Zorro -- The young and innocent -- Operation Montoneros.
Summary In this gritty exposé, a firsthand look inside U.S. undercover operations targeting the immigrant smuggling, counterfeiting, and drug rings of Mexico's dangerous mafi.
Subject Undocumented Immigrants. (DNLM)D000069756
Emigration and immigration law -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
TRUE CRIME -- Murder.
Illegal immigration -- Law and legislation -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Border crossing -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Emigration and immigration law. (OCoLC)fst00908736
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
Border crossing. (OCoLC)fst01715649
Noncitizens -- Crimes against -- Law and legislation -- Mexican-American Border Region.
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Human smuggling -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Local Subject Undocumented immigration -- Law and legislation -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Subject Mexicans -- Crimes against -- Law and legislation -- Mexican-American Border Region.
North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. (OCoLC)fst01239966
Human smuggling. (OCoLC)fst00963471
Added Author Pulitzer, Lisa.
ISBN 1451632878
9781451632873
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