As a biography, Drug Lord traces the life of Pablo Acosta Villarreal in the Rio Grande region of the United States and Mexico, south of the Texas Big Bend and Big Bend National Park, covering his early migrant life in the United State, his brushes with the law, and his arrest for heroin smuggling. The book documents the rise of violent drug trafficking organizations in Ojinaga, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from Presidio, Texas, and Pablo Acosta's eventual takeover as the drug baron of tha...

Drug Lord, a firsthand account of drug dealing, murder, and corruption, tells of drug kingpin Pablo Acosta, who smuggled up to twenty tons of cocaine each year into the United States before treachery brought about his downfall and grisly death.