{"product_id":"9780968971857","title":"The Vampires of Juarez","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The First World and the Third World are the bread in this sandwich and we\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare the baloney!\" So a character describes the sprawling industrial war zone on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe U.S.\/Mexico border that is Ciudad Juarez, the epicenter of the drug trade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhere the Third World comes to make what the First World wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHundreds of young women have been abducted, raped and murdered here, yet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe ongoing tragedy of 'las desaparecidas' remains unsolved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInto this smoldering devil's stew steps an eccentric English journalist, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esometime employee of an occult magazine in London that attempts 'the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erational examination of irrational phenomena', on his way from Miami to Los\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAngeles by bus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is NOT a typical genre 'vampire' novel but a satire that exposes the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehypocrisy of the War on Drugs and examines the cause of the horror that has\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeen perpetrated on the women of Juarez. It owes a great deal to the brilliant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecollaboration of Charles Bowden and Julian Cardona.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Italian reviewer Susanna Raule called the novel \"fast-moving, eloquent an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efunny and at the same time profoundly violent and distressing\" but added that\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"irony saves it from insupportable sadness and instead creates a fresh and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecaptivating story.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Vampires of Juarez is the first book of Alan Scarfe's 'Carnivore' Trilogy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand is followed by The Demons of 9\/11 and The Mask of the Holy Spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smart House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023066775792,"sku":"9780968971857","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780968971857_p0.jpg?v=1763879454","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780968971857","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}