{"product_id":"the-vampires-of-juarez-paperback","title":"The Vampires of Juarez - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlan Scarfe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 02, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46136530895045,"sku":"9780968971857","price":30.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/pJT4hJr-Ox9780968971857.webp?v=1777366442","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-vampires-of-juarez-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}