Scorching.Charles Bowden knows the Southwest. He knows Ciudad Juárez. He's walked its streets, He's talked to its people. He has no patience for armchair pundits. He knows where the bodies are buried.Literally.Bowden's book is about Juárez in the year of 2008, when--as John Wesley Harding said a ...
Magical Thinking I want to comfort the murder city dreamland el sicario of Bowden's teeth worn invisibly around his neck and now and then torn off to throw in the soup, but Magical Thinking, one of two ways to be safe and sane, requires silence, which means pretend nothing is happening. Facsimile...
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Jeremy Renner Kill the Messenger tells the story of the tragic death of Gary Webb, the controversial newspaper reporter who committed suicide in December 2004. Webb is the former San Jose Mercury News reporter whose 1996 "Dark Alliance" series on the so...
They stop by his house to get some clothes and then flee to a small ranch about six miles west of Ascensión, where he can hide. He is terrified. Later that night, a friend takes him back to his house once again. He wears a big straw hat, slips low in the seat. He sneaks into his house and gets vi...