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Murder City

Audiobook

Charles Bowden writes, "this book is not about how the world ends but how a new world is being born." Murder City explores this new world, focusing on the idea that Mexico is collapsing into a permanent culture of violence. Bowden focuses on Ciudad Juarez, which lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, last year alone 1,607 people were murdered, a number that is set to accelerate in 2009. Miss Sinaloa is a beauty queen who loses her mind; her descent into madness becomes a parable for the town itself. As Bowden searches for reasons to explain why so many are dying, he realizes that what is happening in Juarez and other border towns— caught in the crosshairs of the drug and immigration wars—represents the total collapse of civic society.


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Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc. Edition: Unabridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781607474852
  • File size: 252631 KB
  • Release date: March 30, 2010
  • Duration: 08:46:18

MP3 audiobook

  • ISBN: 9781607474852
  • File size: 252663 KB
  • Release date: March 30, 2010
  • Duration: 08:50:14
  • Number of parts: 9

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Charles Bowden writes, "this book is not about how the world ends but how a new world is being born." Murder City explores this new world, focusing on the idea that Mexico is collapsing into a permanent culture of violence. Bowden focuses on Ciudad Juarez, which lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, last year alone 1,607 people were murdered, a number that is set to accelerate in 2009. Miss Sinaloa is a beauty queen who loses her mind; her descent into madness becomes a parable for the town itself. As Bowden searches for reasons to explain why so many are dying, he realizes that what is happening in Juarez and other border towns— caught in the crosshairs of the drug and immigration wars—represents the total collapse of civic society.


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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Phoenix Books, Inc.
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9781607474852
    File size: 252631 KB
    Release date: March 30, 2010
    Duration: 08:46:18

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9781607474852
    File size: 252663 KB
    Release date: March 30, 2010
    Duration: 08:50:14
    Number of parts: 9

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
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