9781501126550-1501126555-Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel

Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel

ISBN-13: 9781501126550
ISBN-10: 1501126555
Edition: Reprint
Author: Dan Slater
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback 368 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781501126550
ISBN-10: 1501126555
Edition: Reprint
Author: Dan Slater
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback 368 pages

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Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel (ISBN-13: 9781501126550 and ISBN-10: 1501126555), written by authors Dan Slater, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2017. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Crime & Criminals (Specific Groups, Organized Crime, True Crime, Criminal Law) books. You can easily purchase or rent Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Crime & Criminals books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.69.

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The tale of two American teenagers recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and the Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unstoppable. “A hell of a story…undeniably gripping.” (The New York Times)

In this astonishing story, journalist Dan Slater recounts the unforgettable odyssey of Gabriel Cardona. At first glance, Gabriel is the poster-boy American teenager: athletic, bright, handsome, and charismatic. But the ghettos of Laredo, Texas—his border town—are full of smugglers and gangsters and patrolled by one of the largest law-enforcement complexes in the world. It isn’t long before Gabriel abandons his promising future for the allure of juvenile crime, which leads him across the river to Mexico’s most dangerous drug cartel: Los Zetas. Friends from his childhood join him and eventually they catch the eye of the cartel’s leadership.

As the cartel wars spill over the border, Gabriel and his crew are sent to the States to work. But in Texas, the teen hit men encounter a Mexican-born homicide detective determined to keep cartel violence out of his adopted country. Detective Robert Garcia’s pursuit of the boys puts him face-to-face with the urgent consequences and new security threats of a drug war he sees as unwinnable.

In Wolf Boys, Slater takes readers on a harrowing, often brutal journey into the heart of the Mexican drug trade. Ultimately though, Wolf Boys is the intimate story of the lobos: teens turned into pawns for the cartels. A nonfiction thriller, it reads with the emotional clarity of a great novel, yet offers its revelations through extraordinary reporting.

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