Gangster warlords : drug dollars, killing fields an the new politics of Latin America
Ioan Grillo (Author)
REPORTAGE & COLLECTED JOURNALISM. In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a crystal meth maker is venerated as a saint while imposing Old Testament justice on his enemies. A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments and taking over much of the world's trade in narcotics, guns and humans
Print Book, English, 2017
Paperback edition
Bloomsbury, London, 2017