Amexica: War Along the Borderline
Author(s): Ed Vulliamy
In the last three years more than 23,000 people have been murdered in Amexica - the area of land that forms the border between the US and Mexico. This is both the busiest and most deadly frontier in the world, studded with guard-posts, infra-red searchlights and heavily armed patrols. Across it unfolds a war that is scarcely reported - a war that's being fought, with thousands dying and millions of lives blighted, so that Europe and America can get high. In "Amexica", acclaimed journalist Ed Vulliamy explores his own love-hate relationship with the place and its people, while investigating the causes and consequences of the war and its impact on the everyday life which somehow carries on around it.
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The harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the US-Mexico border - this is the secret war of drugs, gangs and guns that is destroying thousands of lives.
"Vulliamy, with a mix of irony and pathos, writes like a latter-day Graham Greene. . . . Like all good travel writing, "Amexica" is vivid, colorful, and exotic, filled with striking vignettes and larger-than-life characters." - Tamar Jacoby, "The New York Times Book Review "Extraordinary." - Vanity Fair "An engrossing travelogue . . . a vivid, disturbing dispatch from a very wild frontier." " - Publishers Weekly "Vulliamy paints a terrifying and authoritative portrait of violence." - "David Reiff, "The Wall Street Journal "An absorbing odyssey . . . Vulliamy's reporting is faultlessly brave. . . . The scenery and characters he meets are brought alive with vividness and intensity." - Alex Spillius, "The Telegraph (UK)"
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 0.304
- : 01 September 2011
- : 198mm X 131mm X 27mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 December 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : 416
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Ed Vulliamy
