Amexica: War Along the Borderline

By Ed Vulliamy

Book Overview

With a New Afterword

In 2009, Ed Vulliamy traveled two thousand miles along the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Tijuana to Matamoros, a journey through a kaleidoscopic landscape of corruption and all-out civil war. He describes in revelatory detail the dreaded narco gangs; the smuggling of people, weapons, and illegal drugs; and the interrelated economies of drugs and the ruthless, systematic murder of young women in Ciudad Juarez. Amexica takes us far beyond today's headlines. It is a street-level portrait, by turns horrific and sublime, of a place and people in a time of war as much as of the war itself, "an impressively rendered, nightmare-inducing account" (Kirkus Reviews, Top 25 Books of 2010).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312610610
• ISBN13: 9780312610616
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.3"