A gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation's democracy and reaches across to the United States.
Ioan Grillo has reported on Latin America since 2001 for international media including TIME magazine, Reuters, CNN, the Associated Press, PBS NewsHour, the Houston Chronicle, CBC, and the Sunday Telegraph. His first book, El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, was translated into five languages and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A native of England, Grillo lives in Mexico City.
Puts a human face on the bloodshed.
*The Boston Globe*
It is hard enough to report the facts of Mexico's crazy death
spiral of drug violence. Ioan Grillo goes much, much deeper. He
explains why El Narco threatens the soul of this beautiful country.
He tells us how we got here.
*The Washington Post*
Essential reading.
*New Yorker.com*
Remarkable.
*Houston Chronicle*
Grillo's clear-eyed, sobering account has authority and a flair for
colourful anecdotes, making for disturbing but riveting
reading.
*Metro*
A superb report from the front lines of narco-violence.
*Independent*
[A] shining example of dogged, impassioned and courageous reporting
... compelling ... his pace is furious, like driving at top speed
along a wild mountain track in a pickup and there is no doubting
his expertise, his compassion or his grit.
*Daily Express*
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