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Twenty-five years of wretched excess are deftly chronicled by de Mauleón in this fast-moving book recounting landmark episodes of Mexico's drug trafficking history since 1985, the year that the killing of DEA agent Kiki Camarena catapulted the narcos' gruesome exploits from the tabloids to the front pages. De Mauleón, a Mexico City journalist and fiction writer who has covered this beat for a decade, pieces together events from news archives, interviews, affidavits, and other documents to create a neck-snapping succession of stories that traces the lineage of the current kingpins and the po...Log In or Sign Up to Read More