Amexica: War Along the Borderline

With a New Afterword. In 2009 Ed Vulliamy traveled two thousand miles along the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico and from Tijuana to Matamoros a journey through a kaleidoscopic landscape of corruption and all-out civil war. He describes in revelatory detail the dreaded narco gangs; the smuggling of people weapons and illegal drugs; and the interrelated economies of drugs and the ruthless systematic murder of young women in Ciudad Juarez. Amexica takes us far beyond todays headlines. It is a street-level portrait by turns horrific and sublime of a place and people in a time of war as much as of the war itself an impressively rendered nightmare-inducing account (Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Books of 2010).