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 *
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 *
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 *

Ed Vulliamy is a journalist and writes for the Guardian and Observer. He has been shortlisted for an Amnesty International Media Award for his reporting on Mexico. For his work in Bosnia, Italy, the US and Iraq he has won a James Cameron Award and an Amnesty International Media Award and has been named International Reporter of the Year (twice) and runner-up at the Foreign Press Association Awards. In 1996 he became the first journalist to ever testify at an international crimes court, at the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia. A believer in the duty of journalists to testify in matters of humanitarian law, he has since lectured extensively on the subject.

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