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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-101635578485

ISBN-139781635578485

eBay Product ID (ePID)21050385720

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Book TitleBlood Gun Money : How America Arms Gangs and Cartels

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicInternational Relations / Arms Control, Military / Weapons, Commerce, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Organized Crime, Criminology

Publication Year2023

IllustratorYes

GenrePolitical Science, True Crime, Social Science, Business & Economics, History

AuthorIoan Grillo

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight14.1 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"With conversational prose and audacious reporting, [Grillo] etches brisk vignettes of A.T.F. agents, gunrunners, hit men and straw purchasers, switching among more characters and exotic locales than an international thriller." -- The New York Times Book Review "Ioan Grillo is one of the best reporters covering the cartels, crime and carnage south of the border. In Blood Gun Money , he traces the drug-gun pipeline that runs straight from that violence to the beating heart of America. It's even weirder and bloodier than the fiction." -- Don Winslow, author of THE CARTEL and THE BORDER "Well-researched, well-written, and informative." -- Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) "Ioan Grillo is one of the bravest and most thoughtful journalists in the world. If you want to know what's really going on, you have to read him-and especially this excellent book." -- Johann Hari, author of CHASING THE SCREAM, "Ioan Grillo is one of the best reporters covering the cartels, crime and carnage south of the border. In Blood Gun Money , he traces the drug-gun pipeline that runs straight from that violence to the beating heart of America. It's even weirder and bloodier than the fiction." -- Don Winslow, author of THE CARTEL and THE BORDER "Written in a gripping narrative style and with details gleaned from firsthand reporting, Ioan Grillo has written a vitally important book about the 'iron river.'" -- Jon Lee Anderson, author of CHE GUEVARA "An alarming and deeply reported account of how the U.S. gun trade fuels bloodshed, terror, and refugee crises throughout the Western hemisphere . . . This expert account makes the high cost of America's thirst for guns crystal clear." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "Ioan Grillo is one of the bravest and most thoughtful journalists in the world. If you want to know what's really going on, you have to read him-and especially this excellent book." -- Johann Hari, author of CHASING THE SCREAM

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal381.456834097

Synopsis"An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands of criminals and drug lords."--Adam Winkler From the author of El Narco and winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade and contributing to the epidemic of mass shootings. The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the street corners of inner city America and across the border as Mexico's powerful cartels battle to control the drug trade. Guns and drugs aren't often connected in our heated discussions of gun control-but they should be. In Ioan Grillo's groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, he shows us this connection by following the market for guns in the Americas and how it has made the continent the most murderous on earth. Grillo travels to gun manufacturers, strolls the aisles of gun shows and gun shops, talks to federal agents who have infiltrated biker gangs, hangs out on Baltimore street corners, and visits the ATF gun tracing center in West Virginia. Along the way, he details the many ways that legal guns can cross over into the black market and into the hands of criminals, fueling violence here and south of the border. Simple legislative measures would help close these loopholes, but America's powerful gun lobby is uncompromising in its defense of the hallowed Second Amendment. Perhaps, however, if guns were seen not as symbols of freedom, but as key accessories in our epidemics of addiction, the conversation would shift. Blood Gun Money is that conversation shifter., From the author of El Narco and winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade and contributing to the epidemic of mass shootings., The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the street corners of inner-city America and across the border as Mexico's powerful cartels battle to control the drug trade. Guns and drugs aren't often connected in our heated discussions of gun control-but they should be. In Ioan Grillo's groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, he shows us this connection by tracking how the market for guns has made North America the most murderous continent on earth. Grillo travels to gun manufacturers, strolls the aisles of gun shows and gun shops, talks to federal agents who have infiltrated biker gangs, hangs out on Baltimore street corners, and visits the ATF gun tracing center in West Virginia. Along the way, he details the many ways that legal guns can cross over into the black market and into the hands of criminals, fueling violence here and south of the border. Simple legislative measures would help close these loopholes, but America's powerful gun lobby is uncompromising in its defense of the hallowed Second Amendment. Perhaps if guns were seen as key accessories in our epidemics of drug addiction, that conversation would shift. Blood Gun Money is that conversation shifter.