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Hazel (2934 KP) rated El Chapo [Audiobook] in Books

May 7, 2023

El Chapo [Audiobook]

Terry Burrows | 2023 | Crime, History & Politics

6.0

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An interesting look at the life of El Chapo and the Mexican drug cartels including the politics and widespread corruption surrounding the drug trade.

I listened to the audiobook and thought the narrator did a great job to put some 'life' into what could have been a bland story that could easily come across as a text book. The author has clearly done his research and there is a lot of information to digest.

Overall, a very interesting overview of the seedy and dangerous world of the drug trade and my thanks go to Arcturus Digital Audio and NetGalley for enabling me to listen to and share my thoughts of El Chapo.

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Sep 22, 2025

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The Women in the Shadows

Harriet Fox and Kerry Barrett

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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London, 1888. A monster prowls the gaslit streets, and the police are looking in all the wrong...

Historical Crime Mystery

China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay

Minxin Pei

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When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to...

History Politics economics

Ross (3284 KP) rated Marvel's Iron Fist - Season 1 in TV

Aug 7, 2018

This series is by far the weakest of the first batch of Defenders components on Netflix, and I really didn't like Jessica Jones. It really feels like a poorly executed version of DC's Arrow - the characters and storylines are so very similar (rich boy goes missing, comes back with new talents, friends' father is an evil mastermind, corruption). There was nowhere near enough action for what should have been a very heavily kung-fu based series. The series was padded out to make the necessary 13 episodes, and there was a lot of nothing in between. Good to have some of the Iron Fist background but this was badly carried out (compared to the excellent equivalent in Luke Cage!).
Glad I got through it at last.