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

Bowden, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0743244575 ISBN 13: 9780743244572

Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2004

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:

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.

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.

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 and Schuster
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0743244575
• ISBN 13: 9780743244572
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448