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.

In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who spent extended periods of time in Juarez-has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates.

Published in 1986, Blue Desert was Charles Bowden¡¦s third book-length work and takes place almost entirely in Arizona, revealing Bowden¡¦s growing and intense preoccupation with the state and what it represented as a symbol of ...

He left the business and turned to Christ. And then he decided to tell the story of his life and work. Charles Bowden first encountered El Sicario while reporting for the book "Murder City".

One of Charles Bowden¡¦s earliest books, Red Line powerfully conveys a desert civilization careening over the edge―and decaying at its center.

The American photographer's artistry is beautifully displayed in these meticulously detailed and highly colored desert photos. Charles Bowden wrote the essay "Night Music."

Or leave the shade for the sun and feel the burning. I know I don't belong here. But this is the only place I belong,¡¨ he says.

From the introduction to the new edition: ¡§I¡¦ll tell you where I went wrong.

Maybe he ll finally meet his match. Maybe he'll put down this life and leave Joey O Shay behind for good. "This is a look at drug enforcement that leaves you wishing it was a novel so it wouldn't be true.

In that sense, the book was out of date, because how drug trafficking operated under the PRI is completely different than how it works today in a new Mexico, under the democratically transformed Mexico.