Bloodlines

Drugs, money, cartels— these were what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo; instead he was deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Until one day he was asked to check out a tip from a source: a horse was sold at an Oklahoma auction for a record-topping price, and the buyer was Miguel Treviñ o, one of the leaders of the Zetas, Mexico’ s most brutal drug cartel. The source suggested that Treviñ o was laundering money through American quarter horse racing. If this was true, it offered a rookie like Lawson the perfect opportunity to infiltrate the cartel. Lawson teamed up with Alma Perez, a more experienced agent, and, taking on impossible odds, set out to take down one of the world’ s most fearsome drug lords.  
In Bloodlines, Emmy and National Magazine 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 more than three years of research and her decades of reporting on Mexico and the border into a gripping narrative about greed and corruption. Bloodlines offers us an unprecedented look at the inner workings of the Zetas and U. S. federal agencies, and opens a new vista onto the changing nature of the drug war and its global expansion.