11 Top true crime books like Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels by Jesse Fink

Cover of Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels by Jesse Fink

Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels

By: Jesse Fink

3.85

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

‘Gripping story ... fascinating ... those interested in how the illegal drug trade and law enforcem…

If you liked the true crime plot in Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels by Jesse Fink , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Secrets She Keeps by Michael Robotham

1. The Secrets She Keeps

By: Michael Robotham

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of The Girl on the Trainand In a Dark, Dark Wood, from the internation… read more

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  • crime
Cover of At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel by William C. Rempel

2. At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel

By: William C. Rempel

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter William C… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon, #2) by Daniel Silva

3. The English Assassin (Gabriel Allon, #2)

By: Daniel Silva

3.89

Format: 432 pages,

The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva's extraordinary debut novel, was applauded by critics as it rocketed… read more

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Cover of The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1) by Daniel Silva

4. The Kill Artist (Gabriel Allon, #1)

By: Daniel Silva

3.89

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Gabriel Allon had a simple but brutal job: he tracked down and eliminated Israel's terrorist enemie… read more

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5. I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

By: Neil Strauss , Kevin Hart

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart tu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

6. Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail

By: Rusty Young , Thomas McFadden

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted Engli… read more

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7. Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2's Deadliest Day

By: Peter Zuckerman , Amanda Padoan

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When Edmund Hillary first conquered Mt. Everest, Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was at his side. Indeed, for… read more

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8. Spy Who Couldn't Spell, The : A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI's Hunt for America's Stolen Secrets

By: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

3.91

Format: 434 pages,

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9. El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

By: Ioan Grillo

3.69

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

The world has watched stunned at the bloodshed in Mexico. Thirty thousand murdered since 2006; poli… read more

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10. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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  • crime
"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

Cover of The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill by Brad Meltzer

11. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

By: Brad Meltzer

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true sto… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang by Ken Croke

12. Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

By: Ken Croke

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent K… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Life We Chose: William “Big Billy” D'Elia and the Last Secrets of America's Most Powerful Mafia Family by Matt Birkbeck

13. The Life We Chose: William “Big Billy” D'Elia and the Last Secrets of America's Most Powerful Mafia Family

By: Matt Birkbeck

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Matt Birkbeck--investigative journalist and executive producer of Netflix's #1 movie Girl in t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston

14. The Lost City of the Monkey God

By: Douglas Preston

3.93

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering jour… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell by Tim           Miller

15. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

By: Tim Miller

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: th… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"

-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

Cover of London Rules (Slough House, #5) by Mick Herron

16. London Rules (Slough House, #5)

By: Mick Herron

4.34

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

The fifth entry in CWA Gold dagger-winning Slough House series.London Rules might not be written do… read more

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  • crime
"hate crime pollutes the soul, but only the souls of those who commit it"

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"you're all crazy," Flyte said. "we prefer the term"Alternatively sane"."

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"Conspiracy theory is bloomed at the rate of one hundred and forty characters a second."

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

"He eyed her critically. "You look like all your birthdays came at once." "I look happy to you?" "No, old. Am I the only one round here speaks English?"

-Mick Herron, London Rules (Slough House, #5)

Cover of Slough House (Slough House, #7) by Mick Herron

17. Slough House (Slough House, #7)

By: Mick Herron

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Brexit is in full swing. And due to mysterious accidents, the Slough Houses ranks continue to thin.… read more

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  • crime
"Funny thing. When I hear the words "trust me", I get the feeling someone's pissing in my shoe."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Treat those you despise with humanity, especially if the reason you despise them is that they have none."

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

"Most great ideas, or a lot of them anyway, were thought at the time to be rubbish, and you were reckoned an idiot for having them. This was true of stupid ideas too. Telling them apart was the tricky…"

-Mick Herron, Slough House (Slough House, #7)

Cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

18. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

Similar categories in David Grann's The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder book and Jesse Fink's Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias

19. The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more

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  • crime
Cover of Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope

20. Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power

By: Bradley Hope

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 by Max Hastings

21. The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962

By: Max Hastings

4.40

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tens… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) by John E. Douglas

22. When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

By: John E. Douglas

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
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23. Grey Bees

By: Andrey Kurkov

4.07

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

49-year-old safety inspector-turned-beekeeper Sergey Sergeich, wants little more than to help his b… read more

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24. The Shortest History of England

By: James Hawes

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

As James Hawes moves through time, from Caesar to Brexit, through conquests, empires and wars, he w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts) by Serj Tankian

25. Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts)

By: Serj Tankian

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, thoughtful, and beautifully written debut memoir by musician, songwriter, and lead… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back by Oliver Bullough

26. Moneyland: Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back

By: Oliver Bullough

4.20

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in Knightsbridge and Manhattan, som… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade by Benjamin T. Smith

27. The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

By: Benjamin T. Smith

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti

28. The Vory: Russia's Super Mafia

By: Mark Galeotti

3.81

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia’s … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets by Toby Muse

29. Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets

By: Toby Muse

4.21

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of the Netflix show Narcos and readers of true crime, Kilo is a deeply reported account of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
"I roll into the Land of Lightning with a honey bear under my arm and a storm at my heels."

-Toby Muse, Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets

Cover of Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop by Gus Garcia-Roberts

30. Jimmy the King: Murder, Vice, and the Reign of a Dirty Cop

By: Gus Garcia-Roberts

3.87

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An incredible four-decade account of murder, power, and corruption in one of the country’s largest … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
Cover of Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels by Jesse Fink

31. Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels

By: Jesse Fink

3.85

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

‘Gripping story ... fascinating ... those interested in how the illegal drug trade and law enforcem… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Fink's Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels book and Jesse Fink's Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • international

17 must-read history books like Pure Narco: One Man's True Story of 25 Years Inside the Cartels by Jesse Fink

Transform Your Habits

At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel

William C. Rempel

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

Brad Meltzer

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

Ken Croke

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Life We Chose: William “Big Billy” D'Elia and the Last Secrets of America's Most Powerful Mafia Family

Matt Birkbeck

4.14

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19 Top fiction books like Slough House (Slough House, #7) by Mick Herron

Transform Your Habits

Call for the Dead (George Smiley, #1)

John Le Carré

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

David McCloskey

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

Michael Connelly

4.56

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