The Vampires of Juarez

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Smart House Books

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491_9780968971857

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"The First World and the Third World are the bread in this sandwich and weare the baloney!" So a character describes the sprawling industrial war zone onthe U.S./Mexico border that is Ciudad Juarez, the epicenter of the drug tradewhere the Third World comes to make what the First World wants.Hundreds of young women have been abducted, raped and murdered here, yetthe ongoing tragedy of 'las desaparecidas' remains unsolved.Into this smoldering devil's stew steps an eccentric English journalist, thesometime employee of an occult magazine in London that attempts 'therational examination of irrational phenomena', on his way from Miami to LosAngeles by bus.The book is NOT a typical genre 'vampire' novel but a satire that exposes thehypocrisy of the War on Drugs and examines the cause of the horror that hasbeen perpetrated on the women of Juarez. It owes a great deal to the brilliantcollaboration of Charles Bowden and Julian Cardona.The Italian reviewer Susanna Raule called the novel "fast-moving, eloquent anfunny and at the same time profoundly violent and distressing" but added that"irony saves it from insupportable sadness and instead creates a fresh andcaptivating story."The Vampires of Juarez is the first book of Alan Scarfe's 'Carnivore' Trilogyand is followed by The Demons of 9/11 and The Mask of the Holy Spirit.

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