Amexica

Amexica is fascinating, infuriating and inspiring. Essential reading

Don Winslow, author of The Power of the Dog

A work of vivid social reportage

Spectator

A harrowing read about the narcowars in Mexico, economic exploitation and the horrors of the globalised drug trade

Fatima Bhutto, New Statesman

With a great sense of timing, Vulliamy now comes out with the most vivid book so far published in English on the bloody calamity that has been visited on Mexico's northern border lands... The author has done a great deal of painstaking work in investigating and describing the blood-soaked frontier and the political cross-currants in both regions... it stands that this is a fascinating introduction to the bloody last act of the "war on drugs", which must surely soon pass unlamented into history

Hugh O'Shaughnessy, The Observer, New Review

This absorbing odyssey along the Mexican-American border gives pause for thought to anyone who ignores the side-effects of cocaine...Vulliamy's reporting is faultlessly brave ...the scenery and characters he meets are brought alive with vividness and intensity'

Alex Spillius, Telegraph

Previously, to understand the ruthlessness, ambition and impact of today's global criminals, you needed to read Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah and Misha Glenny's McMafia. Now, you also need to read Vulliamy's Amexica

Sunday Times

The most vivid book so far published in English on the bloody calamity that has been visited on Mexico's northern border lands

Hugh O'Shaughnessy, Observer

Vulliamy is the ideal foreign correspondent to analyse the phenomenon. He knows the border well and was one of the first to report on the murdered women of Ciudad Juárez. He also refuses to find easy answers to difficult questions. While some commentators have made glib assumptions about the Mexican propensity for brutality, Amexica shows that the crushing power of the multinationals in a low-wage economy is a key factor

Independent

Ed Vulliamy provides a brilliant, rigorous analysis

Independent