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

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Advance Uncorrected Reader's Proof. Paperback. Very Good. SIGNED. 418 pp. Octavo [23 cm] Yellow printed wraps. There are a couple of minor abraded areas on the wraps, and there are several short pen marks on the front wrap. 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.

Charles Bowden was one of the premier writers on social issues along the U.S.-Mexico border. In Down by the River, he turns his critical, lyrical pen to the "War on Drugs".

Signed by the author on the title page.