Full name: Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family

Author: Charles Bowden Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Mystery, Crime, True crime, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780743244572 0743244575

Lionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Beneath all the policy statements and bluster of politicians is a real world of lies, pain, and big money. Down by the River is the true narrative of how a murder led one American family into this world and how it all but destroyed them. It is the story of how one Mexican drug leader outfought and outthought the U.S. government, of how major financial institutions were fattened on the drug industry, and how the governments of the U.S. and Mexico buried everything that happened. All this happens down by the river, where the public fictions finally end and the facts read like fiction. This is a remarkable American story about drugs, money, murder, and family. Similar books: El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency by Ioan Grillo Amexica by Ed Vulliamy Dark Alliance by Gary Webb Parkland by Dave Cullen Gangster Warlords by Ioan Grillo The Art of Political Murder by Francisco Goldman Not in Your Lifetime by Anthony Summers ZeroZeroZero by Roberto Saviano Dead Wrong by Richard Belzer Lethal Passage by Erik Larson To Die in Mexico by John Gibler Blow by Bruce Porter Murder city by Charles Bowden While They Slept by Kathryn Harrison Skyjack by Geoffrey Gray What Cops Know by Connie Fletcher Ghettoside by Jill Leovy Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich Killing Pablo by Mark Bowden The Hot House by Pete Earley