{"product_id":"9781429977029","title":"Amexica: War Along the Borderline","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmexica\u003c\/i\u003e is the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the U.S.-Mexico border—\"a country in its own right, which belongs to both the United States and Mexico, yet neither\"—as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2009, after reporting from the border for many years, Ed Vulliamy traveled the frontier from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico, from Tijuana to Matamoros, a journey through a kaleidoscopic landscape of corruption and all-out civil war, but also of beauty and joy and resilience. He describes in revelatory detail how the narco gangs work; the smuggling of people, weapons, and drugs back and forth across the border; middle-class flight from Mexico and an American celebrity culture that is feeding the violence; the interrelated economies of drugs and the maquiladora factories; the ruthless, systematic murder of young women in Ciudad Juarez. Heroes, villains, and victims—the brave and rogue police, priests, women, and journalists fighting the violence; the gangs and their freelance killers; the dead and the devastated—all come to life in this singular book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmexica\u003c\/i\u003e takes us far beyond today's headlines. It is a street-level portrait, by turns horrific and sublime, of a place and people in a time of war as much as of the war itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128038015216,"sku":"9781429977029","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429977029_p0.jpg?v=1769902800","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429977029","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}