Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields

by Charles Bowden

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Ciudad Jurez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killeda number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowdenone of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Jurezhas written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitantsa raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing for his lifewith a...Read more
  • ISBN10 1568584490
  • ISBN13 9781568584492
  • Publish Date 30 March 2010
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 15 November 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Avalon Publishing Group
  • Imprint Nation Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 352
  • Language English