Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family - Hardcover

Bowden, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684853434 ISBN 13: 9780684853437

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2002

Synopsis

Offers an illuminating tour of the drug war, revealing the dark, troubling recesses of drug lords, high-level corruption, and ultra-violence that respects no borders.

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Review:

"Entertainment Weekly" Full of sick ironies, stranger-than-fiction anecdotes, and beautifully bare-knuckle prose, "Down by the River" is a tragic account of corruption and collusion writ large.

"The New York Times Book Review"

Bowden calls himself a reporter, and in a pure sense of the word he really is one. He is also an authentic talent.

"Entertainment Weekly"

Full of sick ironies, stranger-than-fiction anecdotes, and beautifully bare-knuckle prose, "Down by the River" is a tragic account of corruption and collusion writ large.

"The New Yorker"

Brutal and brilliantly reported...remarkably vivid...captures the way greed, ethnicity, and an old-school emphasis on honor interact to create a world in which violence is the only constant.

"Chicago Tribune"

An extraordinary book -- daring, genre-bending, literary, and wise...an intimate and excruciating portrait of the way murder-borne grief can tear a family to ribbons. It is also as fresh and damning an indictment of the drug war as you're likely to read.

"The New York Times Book Review"Bowden calls himself a reporter, and in a pure sense of the word he really is one. He is also an authentic talent.

"Entertainment Weekly"Full of sick ironies, stranger-than-fiction anecdotes, and beautifully bare-knuckle prose, "Down by the River" is a tragic account of corruption and collusion writ large.

"The New Yorker"Brutal and brilliantly reported...remarkably vivid...captures the way greed, ethnicity, and an old-school emphasis on honor interact to create a world in which violence is the only constant.

"Chicago Tribune"An extraordinary book -- daring, genre-bending, literary, and wise...an intimate and excruciating portrait of the way murder-borne grief can tear a family to ribbons. It is also as fresh and damning an indictment of the drug war as you're likely to read.

"The New Yorker" Brutal and brilliantly reported...remarkably vivid...captures the way greed, ethnicity, and an old-school emphasis on honor interact to create a world in which violence is the only constant.

About the Author:

Journalist Charles Bowden has written eleven previous nonfiction books, including Blood Orchid, Trust Me, Desierto, The Sonoran Desert, Frog Mountain Blues, and Killing the Hidden Waters. Winner of the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, he lives in Tucson, Arizona.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0684853434
• ISBN 13: 9780684853437
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496