Libros de Charles Bowden (2 libros)

Chronicles the rapid decline of the city of Cuidad Juárez, Mexico, beginning in 2008 when more than twenty police officers were murdered, describing how drugs, globalization, corruption, and immigration have lead to increased violence and murder and created a dangerous city where crime runs rampant.

Praise for Mezcal: "Mezcal is also a lyrical meditation upon the ultimate strength of the land, specifically the desert Southwest, and how that land prevails and endures despite every effort of modern industry and development to rape and savage it in the name of progress. Mezcal lingers in the mind as only the very best books manage to do."—Harry Crews "The author . . . excavates his own tormented life—and its relation to the land he loves—in a series of powerful, imagistic autobiographical essays. Like the desert he cherishes, this memoir is harsh yet lovely, full of sour self-truth. . ...