{"title":"Charles Bowden","description":"Journalist Charles Bowden has written eleven previous nonfiction books, including Blood Orchid, Trust Me, Desierto, The Sonoran Desert, Frog Mountain Blues,  and Killing the Hidden Waters. Winner of the 1996 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, he lives in Tucson, Arizona","products":[{"product_id":"down-by-the-river-drugs-money-murder-and-family-paperback","title":"Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eLionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments -- one called the United States and the other Mexico -- and a self-styled War on Drugs that is a fraud. Beneath all the policy statements and bluster of politicians is a real world of lies, pain, and big money. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366082478303,"sku":"9780743244572","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/65ozwshm1A9780743244572.webp?v=1789080819"},{"product_id":"the-red-caddy-into-the-unknown-with-edward-abbey-paperback","title":"The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward Abbey - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927-1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as \u003ci\u003eDesert Solitaire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Monkey Wrench Gang\u003c\/i\u003e that continue to inspire environmental activists. In this eloquent memoir, his friend and fellow desert rat Charles Bowden reflects on Abbey the man and the writer, offering up thought-provoking, contrarian views of the writing life, literary reputations, and the perverse need of critics to sum up \"what he really meant and whether any of it was truly up to snuff.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Red Caddy\u003c\/i\u003e is the first literary biography of Abbey in a generation. Refusing to turn him into a desert guru, Bowden instead recalls the wild man in a red Cadillac convertible for whom liberty was life. He describes how \u003ci\u003eDesert Solitaire\u003c\/i\u003e paradoxically \"launched thousands of maniacs into the empty ground\" that Abbey wanted to protect, while sealing his literary reputation and overshadowing the novels that Abbey considered his best books. Bowden also skewers the cottage industry that has grown up around Abbey's writing, smoothing off its rougher (racist, sexist) edges while seeking \"anecdotes, little intimacies . . . pieces of the True Beer Can or True Old Pickup Truck.\" Asserting that the real essence of Abbey will always remain unknown and unknowable, \u003ci\u003eThe Red Caddy\u003c\/i\u003e still catches gleams of \"the fire that from time to time causes a life to become a conflagration.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433962668255,"sku":"9781477322338","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/GTpLmG5ZbK9781477322338.webp?v=1790021106"},{"product_id":"murder-city-ciudad-juarez-and-the-global-economys-new-killing-fields-paperback","title":"Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCiudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eMurder City\u003c\/i\u003e, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who spent extended periods of time in Juarez-has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants-a beauty queen who was raped, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing for his life-with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juarez's culture of violence will not only worsen, but inevitably spread north. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Heartbreaking, disturbing, and unforgettable, \u003ci\u003eMurder City\u003c\/i\u003e was written at the height of his powers and established Bowden as one of America's leading journalists.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51435914199263,"sku":"9781568586458","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xBKAJN1UfX9781568586458.webp?v=1790052620"},{"product_id":"a-shadow-in-the-city-confessions-of-an-undercover-drug-warrior-paperback","title":"A Shadow in the City: Confessions of an Undercover Drug Warrior - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoey O'Shay is a cop with a genius for the drug bust. But after more than two decades undercover, he's no longer so certain who the heroes of the drug war are, or what the fight is for. Still, he never feels so alive as when he's doing a deal. So this time he sets out to test himself against the elite of the drug business, the Colombians and their fine, pure heroin. Maybe he'll finally meet his match. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharles Bowden, author of the critically acclaimed Down by the River, follows O'Shay as he sets the deal in motion. A Shadow in the City confirms Bowden's reputation as a bold, genre-bending chronicler of the underworld.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoey O'Shay is not the real name of the narcotics agent in an unnamed city in the center of the country. But Joey O'Shay exists. The nearly three hundred drug busts he has orchestrated over more than two decades are real, too; if the drug war were a declared war, O'Shay would have a Silver Star. \u003cbr\u003eWith nerves and mastery worthy of his subject, Charles Bowden follows O'Shay as he sets in motion his latest conquest, a $50 million heroin deal that originates in Colombia and has federal agents sitting at attention from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to New York City. As it unfolds, O'Shay reveals the unerring instinct and ceaseless vigilance that have led him through minefields and brought down kingpins. But now they have led him to a place where it isn't so clear who the heroes are or what the fight has been for. And still the warrior fights on, in a murky and unforgiving landscape readers will not be able to forget. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating personal story about a man whose search for meaning in his life makes him reject his life's work.--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHe calls himself Joey O'Shay, and he's a cop with a genius for the drug bust. But after more than two decades undercover, he s no longer so certain who the heroes of the drug war are, or what the fight is for. Still, he never feels so alive as when he s doing a deal. So this time he sets out to test himself against the elite of the drug business, the Colombians and their fine, pure heroin. Maybe he ll finally meet his match. Maybe he'll put down this life and leave Joey O Shay behind for good. \u003cbr\u003e\"This is a look at drug enforcement that leaves you wishing it was a novel so it wouldn't be true. The hero, Joey O'Shay, is an artist in his own genre and has to be one of the hardest men in our history.\"--Jim Harrison \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Shadow in the City\u003c\/i\u003e portrays an elusive underworld in the perfect tones of a dream. It is a story full of courage-of bravery that belongs not merely to the embattled agent who is the subject here, but also to the great Charles Bowden for his insistence on non-fiction, and the continuing purity of his work.\"--William Langewiesche, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Ground\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Bowden\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist whose work appears regularly in \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, and other national publications. He is the author of several previous books of nonfiction, including the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eDown by the River\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book. 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