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Book of the Week: El Narco

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El Narco

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Is El Narco a criminal movement or an insurgency that threatens the very state itself?

Crime and punishment. Politics and the law. Is El Narco a criminal movement or is it an insurgency that threatens the very state itself?

Written by Ioan Grillo. 

Crime and punishment. Politics and the law. Is El Narco a criminal movement or is it an insurgency that threatens the very state itself ?

As a teenager in Brighton the author witnessed the rise of drug use in 1980s Britain. He also knew four young men who died of heroin overdoses. Twelve years ago he arrived in Mexico with ambitions to be 'a foreign correspondent in exotic climes'. But the most compelling story that demanded attention was the extraordinary and terrifying power of the drug cartels and the violent world of 'El Narco'. 

Read by Rupert Degas


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By Ioan Grillo. Exploration of Mexico's drug-fuelled criminal insurgency

By Ioan Grillo. Exploration of Mexico's drug-fuelled criminal insurgency. Read by Rupert Degas

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