Wolf boys two American teenagers and Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel

The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable.

Main Author: Slater, Dan (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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Summary: The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable.
What it like to be an employee of a global drug-trafficking organization? In the border town of Laredo, Texas, Gabriel and his friend Bart abandon promising futures for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the Mexican military. Mexican-born Detective Robert Garcia has worked hard all his life and is now struggling to raise his family in America. As violence spills over the border, Detective Garcia pursuit of the boys, and their cartel leaders, puts him face to face with the urgent consequences of a war he sees as unwinnable. Slater shows the way in which the border itself is changing, disappearing, and posing new, terrifying, and yet largely unseen threats to American security.
Physical Description: vi, 342 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-342).
ISBN: 1501126547
9781501126543
Author Notes: A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal , Dan Slater has written for The New York Times , The New Yorker , The Washington Post , The Boston Globe , New York magazine, The Atlantic , GQ , and Fast Company . He is the author of Love in the Time of Algorithms . A graduate of Colgate University and Brooklyn Law School, he lives in New England.