Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty Audiobook (Free)

The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents within a quest for a drug cartel’s most fearsome leader, Miguel Treviño.

Drugs, cash, cartels: this is exactly what FBI first year Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the boundary town of Laredo, but instead he’s deskbound writing intelligence reviews about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is normally asked to look at an anonymous tip: a equine was sold at an Oklahoma auction house to get a record-topping cost, and the buyer was Miguel Treviño, one of about Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for the Horse-Racing Dynasty the leaders from the Zetas, Mexico’s most brutal medication cartel. The source suggested that Treviño was laundering money through American one fourth horse race. If this is true, it offered a rookie like Lawson an ideal opportunity to infiltrate the cartel. Lawson teams up with a far more experienced agent, Alma Perez, and, taking on impossible odds, models out to take down one of the world’s most fearsome drug lords.

In Bloodlines, Emmy and Country wide Journal Award-winning journalist Melissa del Bosque follows Lawson and Perez’s harrowing attempt to dismantle a cartel leader’s American racing dynasty built on extortion and blood money.

With extensive access to investigative evidence and in-depth interviews with key players, del Bosque turns a lot more than three years of research and her decades of reporting on Mexico and the border right into a gripping narrative about greed and corruption. Bloodlines presents us an unparalleled look at the internal workings of the Zetas and US federal government agencies, and starts a new vista onto the changing nature of the medication war and its own global expansion.