Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (512 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812989600 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Horse Laundry L.W. Samuelson Bones provides a fascinating look at the Trevino family and how the enticement of easy money lured many of them into the drug trade. Joe Tone has done a masterful job of using primary sources to show the interplay between the family and their desire to better themselves and the lure of the drug cartels to gain fame, fortune, and power. It details the efforts of an FBI agent to bring down members of the Zeta cartel and describes the atrocities perpetrated by some of the most ruthless drug lords in the cartel. It also shows how drug money was laundered through quarter horse breeding and racing and how many . A FASCINATING STORY OF CRIME AND CHASE David Keymer In April 2015, the alt-newspaper the Dallas Observer published an article by former editor Joe Tone, entitled “The Rookie and the Zetas: How the Feds Took Down a Drug Cartel’s Horse-Racing Empire.” Tone had left the newspaper to write a book on this story. This is the book. Already, before publication, it’s been optioned as a movie. It’s a heck of a story. After working at manual labor for years, Jose Trevino suddenly broke loose and began buying champion quarter horses. His horses not only won at the track, they made him tons of money at stud—quarter horse racing, for . "A captivating true-crime story about drugs, family, and horses" according to DanD. Miguel Trevino has risen to be a power among the Las Zetas cartel, one of the most brutal in Mexico. Miguel--or "Cuarenta," "Forty"--is himself a brutal man, fond of gunfire and violence. He is one of the most wanted--and feared--men in the Mexican drug world. His brother Jose, however, is a law-abiding citizen of the U.S., a Dallas bricklayer. So when Jose suddenly begins investing in--and winning--quarter-horse races, the FBI and other intelligence agencies take notice. Horses run deep in the Trevino bloodline, and horse racing in the cartel world, and Nuevo Laredo, where the brothers are from. Could Jo
Born in Nuevo Laredo, a Mexican border town on a crucial smuggling route, José was one of thirteen children raised by a hardworking ranch hand. He kept his nose clean. Compelling and complex, Bones sheds light on the perilous lives of American ranchers, the morally dubious machinery of drug and border enforcement, and the way greed and fear mingle with race, class, and violence along America’s vast Southwestern border. Advance praise for Bones “One magnificent piece of border reporting.”—Sam Quinones, author of
Tone holds a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. . He has written extensively about sports, crime, and immigration, among other topics, and has been honored for his investigative reporting, sportswriting, and narrative storytelling. This is his first
And then there are the racehorses, as fast as the wind, competing for million-dollar purses on the quarter-horse tracks of the American Southwest. Swanson, author of Blood Aces“Bones shows you the inner workings of a Mexican drug cartel, via the intriguingly oddball sport of quarter-horse racing. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap “A suspenseful story as well as a fascinating depiction of the mechanics of money laundering, the largely unfamiliar world of quarter-horse racing, and the dynamics of an extended family, the book draws readers into the complexities of life at the border.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review). It’s a gripping s