Amexica: War Along the Borderline

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Number of Pages: 368

A note on this book: This book has some marking and writing throughout the text. It has been reduced in price accordingly. Please lodge an enquiry if you would like more information about this specific book. Description: As dawn broke over the vast desert, the body was still hanging beneath the overpass, having been suspended from it – decapitated and dangling by a rope tied around the armpits – at 4.30am. The sun rose about two hours after it had been suspended from the concrete ‘Bridge of Dreams’, throwing rays like firelight across rush-hour traffic and discarded American school buses carrying workers to sweatshop factories. And it was still there another hour later – swaying, headless, hands cuffed behind its back, in the cold early morning wind of Ciudad Ju rez, the most dangerous city in the Americas, probably the world.’ Amexica tells the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the US-Mexico border – ‘a country in its own right, which belongs to both the US and Mexico, yet neither’ – as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch there. In over twenty years as a journalist at the Guardian and the Observer, Ed has covered organized crime in Italy, the war in Bosnia, and the aftermath of 9/11 in America, and Iraq. He has been a war reporter all over the world, and yet nowhere more has the violence commanded such revulsion and compulsion as it does along the borderline. ‘Th