With the suppression of the Colombian cartels, the Mexican crime syndicates took over the Latin American drug trade, controlling ninety per cent of the cocaine entering the US. This is a cutting-edge true crime history detailing the inexorable rise of the ruthless Mexican drug cartels who have taken violence to new levels and plunged large parts of their home country into chaos as part of their strategy to seize control of the world's most lucrative drug market. Taking you from the story of the Gulf Cartel, founded in the 1930s to smuggle alcohol into the US during Prohibition, to scary private army los Zetas, who are the most technologically advanced, sophisticated and dangerous gang operating out of Mexico. Illustrated throughout in full colour, and full of spine-chilling brutality and hardcore violence, this book is a thrilling read but not for the faint-hearted
