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Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin

Drug Lord: A True Story: The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin

Current price: $17.95
Publication Date: November 30th, 2010
Publisher:
Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN:
9781933693859
Pages:
368

About the Author

Terrence Poppa, an award-winning journalist, is widely respected as an expert in narco-trafficking. He was a finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for his investigations into the connection between crime and government in Mexico. He was featured in Standoff in Mexico, a PBS production about fraudulent elections in Mexico. Due to his unique insights into the world of Mexican drug trafficking, Poppa has been widely interviewed on radio and television and served as a writer for the television show Narcos. Charles Bowden was an investigative journalist who spent much of his career covering the drug wars in the American Southwest. He passed away of natural causes in 2014.