Author: Terrence E. Poppa
During the last years of his violent life, Pablo Acosta smuggled a staggering 60 tons of cocaine a year into the United States-one third of the total U.S.
consumption. Set only miles from the Texas border, Drug Lord is an extraordinary inside look at how drug trafficking
really works in Mexico. Based on interviews with Acosta and other insiders, Poppa weaves a tale of the smuggler's rise from humble beginnings, his violent struggle to maintain control over his empire, the treachery and over-indulgence that fostered his downfall, and his grisly death at the hands of the judiciales, the Mexican federal police he had been paying off for years and who turned against him when he was no longer of…
After serving in the Border Patrol in the west
Texas area for the last ten years, Poppa's book is the most realistic I have read to date. I get frustrated reading many books, especially when they… I've read the book and it is everything my friends told me it was. In the book Comandante Oscar Prieto is one of my friend's dad. The author gives good detail of the story of Pablo because i've heard…
