Down by the River

[Richard Romeo]

damn nypl has every copie either missing or lost.

i tried reading bowden's blues for cannibals which I
thought very pretentious bit of poetic reporting if
one can call it that, but CB's articles about the drug
trade and other pieces that appeared in various
magazines are quite good. From what I remember, he
pretty much risked his life and that at one point
Mexican drug lords had a contract out on him.

Rich

--- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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