So after reading several books about teenagers killing each other described in a fun and romantic way I thought it might be good to read something a little more serious and hard hitting. So I turned to Ioan Grillo's look at the Mexican drug war.
There has been alot of international attention for the Mexican drug war in recent years as the level of violence has peaked leading to piles of headline grabbing corpses and AK47 fuelled shoot outs. The book paints an interesting picture of how the current situation came to pass and describes in interesting detail the state of the country at the moment. Which is a pretty worrying situation with the drug gangs dealing in billions of dollars of currency and arming themselves with the profits. The killing and corruption at the heart of the Mexican state seems to know no limits.
A fascinating book but in the end another book about teenagers killing each other. If only this one was a fiction book.
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