El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

by Ioan Grillo

Book Overview

"Essential reading."-Steve Coll, NewYorker.com

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.

The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of civil wars; car bombs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608194019
• ISBN13: 9781608194018
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.2"