{"product_id":"the-vampires-of-juarez-alan-scarfe-9780968971857","title":"The Vampires of Juarez","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The First World and the Third World are the bread in this sandwich and we\u003cbr\u003e are the baloney!\" So a character describes the sprawling industrial war zone on\u003cbr\u003e the U.S.\/Mexico border that is Ciudad Juarez, the epicenter of the drug trade\u003cbr\u003e where the Third World comes to make what the First World wants.\u003cbr\u003e Hundreds of young women have been abducted, raped and murdered here, yet\u003cbr\u003e the ongoing tragedy of 'las desaparecidas' remains unsolved.\u003cbr\u003e Into this smoldering devil's stew steps an eccentric English journalist, the\u003cbr\u003e sometime employee of an occult magazine in London that attempts 'the\u003cbr\u003e rational examination of irrational phenomena', on his way from Miami to Los\u003cbr\u003e Angeles by bus.\u003cbr\u003e The book is NOT a typical genre 'vampire' novel but a satire that exposes the\u003cbr\u003e hypocrisy of the War on Drugs and examines the cause of the horror that has\u003cbr\u003e been perpetrated on the women of Juarez. It owes a great deal to the brilliant\u003cbr\u003e collaboration of Charles Bowden and Julian Cardona.\u003cbr\u003e The Italian reviewer Susanna Raule called the novel \"fast-moving, eloquent an\u003cbr\u003e funny and at the same time profoundly violent and distressing\" but added that\u003cbr\u003e \"irony saves it from insupportable sadness and instead creates a fresh and\u003cbr\u003e captivating story.\"\u003cbr\u003e The Vampires of Juarez is the first book of Alan Scarfe's 'Carnivore' Trilogy\u003cbr\u003e and is followed by The Demons of 9\/11 and The Mask of the Holy Spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Scarfe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0968971857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780968971857\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Smart House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Alan Scarfe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47637160689919,"sku":"9780968971857","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dc9e3dc5-c849-4514-bd41-146c8a28c7d8.jpg?v=1765114318","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-vampires-of-juarez-alan-scarfe-9780968971857","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}