Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743244572)

Lionel 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.

Author: Charles Bowden
ISBN-10: 0743244575
ISBN-13: 9780743244572
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 01/08/2004
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.68w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 01/18/2004 pg. 24