Description
From the author of El Narco and Gangster Warlords, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade and contributing to the epidemic of mass shootings.
About the Author
Ioan Grillo is a contributing writer at the New York Times specializing in crime and drugs. Based in Mexico City, he has also worked for Time magazine, the History Channel, CNN, Reuters, The Associated Press, and Esquire. He is the author of El Narco, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Gangster Warlords, a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and a Guardian Book of the Year.
Reviews
Ioan Grillo is one of the bravest and most thoughtful journalists in the world. If you want to know what's really going on, you have to read him - and especially this excellent book -- Johann Hari, author of LOST CONNECTIONS
Leaving no stone unturned, Ioan Grillo casts a wide net into understanding the web of firearm culture and complicity; an increasingly important work of journalism both heartbreaking and impossible to put down -- Matthew Heineman, Oscar nominated filmmaker of CARTEL LAND and A PRIVATE WAR
Ioan Grillo is one of the best reporters covering the cartels, crime and carnage south of the border. In Blood Gun Money, he traces the drug-gun pipeline that runs straight from that violence to the beating heart of America. It's even weirder and bloodier than the fiction -- Don Winslow, author of THE CARTEL and THE BORDER
Written in a gripping narrative style and with details gleaned from firsthand reporting, Ioan Grillo has written a vitally important book about the gun underground that those in the know call the Iron River -- Jon Lee Anderson, author CHE GUEVARA: A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE
Praise for Ioan Grillo * --- *
Grillo is a breathtakingly intrepid reporter, diving in where police fear to tread, seeking out men who wouldn't hesitate to kill him * Mail on Sunday *
Dogged, impassioned and courageous reporting ... There is no doubting his expertise, his compassion or his grit * Daily Express *
Grillo has done sterling work on the front lines ... His portraits of gangster societies living beyond law or even reason are starkly persuasive * Spectator *
Excellent ... Incredible stories litter the book ... An urgent look at a terrible, endemic problem -- Toby Muse * TLS *
Book Information
ISBN 9781526632838
Author Ioan Grillo
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 628g