- Published: 1 December 2010
- ISBN: 9781407074917
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
Amexica
War Along the Borderline
- Published: 1 December 2010
- ISBN: 9781407074917
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 512
Amexica is fascinating, infuriating and inspiring. Essential reading
Don Winslow, author of The Power of the Dog
Previously, to understand the ruthlessness, ambition and impact of today's global criminals, you needed to read Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah and Misha Glenny's McMafia. Now, you also need to read Vulliamy's Amexica
Brian Schofield, Sunday Times
Like all good travel writing, Amexica is vivid, colorful and exotic, filled with striking vignettes and larger-than-life characters
New York Times
A harrowing read about the narcowars in Mexico, economic exploitation and the horrors of the globalised drug trade.
Fatima Bhutto, New Statesman
A book based on his long experience as a foreign correspondent along the increasingly frightening border between Mexico and the US.
Hugh Thomson, Independent
Another trip that you are happy the author took, rather than you, is Ed Vulliamy's traverse of the US-Mexican border in Amexica. This gripping investigation of the bloody "war about nothing" that is raging between various drugs cartels and the Mexican police and army is so current that in the two months since its publication, one of the leading characters, cartel chief Antonio "Tony the Storm" Guillen, has been gunned down after a 12-hour battle with Mexican marines
Sunday Times
This is a book - depressing and uniquely informative -about a vast no-man's land in which drug related gang violence has polluted the atmosphere. Once read it will be easily forgotten.
Contemporary Review
A gripping investigation of the bloody 'war about nothing' raging between drugs cartels and the Mexican police and army...to understand the ruthlessness, ambition and impact of today's global criminals, you need to read this book.
Brian Schofield, Sunday Times
He does illustrate most graphically how the fallout from the drugs trade can devastate vast regions
Alastair Mabbott, Herald