- American Dream, Drug traffic, Oxycodone, Opioids
Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a small county on the west coast of Mexico created a unique distribution system that brought black tar heroin-- the cheapest, most addictive form of the opiate, 2 to 3 times purer than its white powder cousin-- to the veins of people across the United States.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Sam Quinones
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 386
- Publisher
- Capitán Swing, Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781620402504
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