Down by the River

[Malignd]

I'm reading and recommend the book Down by the River
by Charles Bowden, about the Mexican/American drug
trade, specifically near Juarez and El Paso.  

The story focuses on the killing of a DEA officer's
brother in El Paso, a seeming carjacking, and spins
out from that.  

It's worth reading just to see, or to be reminded
again, of the numbers, the colossal profits, and of
the extent and depth of the corruption.

It's sort of like reading "Traffic," only much better.
 Bowden writes a very literary, very impressionistic
prose that should undercut the book's credibility as
journalism; instead, it does the opposite.

It's very good.




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