El Narco (52 page)

A big special thanks to agent Katherine Fausset and publisher Pete Beatty for believing in this book and making it happen. I wouldn’t have got anywhere without them. Or without my parents. Or my wife, Myri, who has put up with my covering drug traffickers for the last decade. Thank you.

A Note on the Author

Ioan Grillo
has reported on Latin America since 2001 for international media, including
Time
magazine, CNN, the Associated Press,
PBS NewsHour
, the
Houston Chronicle
, CBC, and the
Sunday Telegraph
. He has covered military operations, mafia killings, and cocaine seizures, and has discussed the drug war with two Mexican presidents, three attorneys general, and the U.S. ambassador. A native of England, he lives in Mexico City.
El Narco
is his first book.

Copyright © 2011 by Ioan Grillo

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Grillo, Ioan, 1973–
El Narco : inside Mexico’s criminal insurgency / Ioan Grillo. — 1st U.S. ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.  Drug traffic—Mexico.   2.  Drug dealers—Mexico.   I.  Title.
HV5840.M4G75 2011
363.450972—dc22
2011007186

First published in the United States by Bloomsbury Press in 2011
Electronic edition published in November 2011

E-book ISBN: 978-1-60819-504-6 (ebook)

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