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

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Chicago Public Library s Best Books of 2016The story of two American teens recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable.What s it like to be an employee of a global drug trafficking organization And how does a fifteen year old American boy go from star quarterback to trained assassin, surging up the cartel corporate ladder At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is the poster boy American teenager great athlete, bright, handsome, and charismatic But the streets of his border town of Laredo, Texas, are poor and dangerous, and it isn t long before Gabriel abandons his promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the Mexican military His younger friend Bart, as well as others from Gabriel s childhood, join him in working for the Zetas, boosting cars and smuggling drugs, eventually catching the eye of the cartel s leadership.Meanwhile, Mexican born Detective Robert Garcia has worked hard all his life and is now struggling to raise his family in America As violence spills over the border, Detective Garcia s pursuit of the boys, and their cartel leaders, puts him face to face with the urgent consequences of a war he sees as unwinnable.In Wolf Boys Dan Slater shares their stories, taking us from the Sierra Madre mountaintops to the dusty, dark alleys of Laredo, Texas, on a harrowing, often brutal journey into the heart of the Mexican drug trade Gabriel s evolution from good natured teenager into a feared assassin is as inevitable as Garcia s slow realization of the futile nature of his work A nonfiction thriller, Wolf Boys depicts than just Gabriel, Bart, and the officers who took them down It shows, through vivid detail and rich, often moving, narrative, the way in which the border itself is changing, disappearing, and posing new, terrifying, and yet largely unseen threats to American security Ultimately though, Wolf Boys is the intimate story of the lobos themselves boys turned into pawns for cartels Their stories show how poverty, ideas about identity, and government ignorance have warped the definition of the American dream. Best Read Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel By Dan Slater For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I was required to read a true crime book for a challenge I am participating in I really didn t feel like reading the usual blood and guts books that the genre tends to lean towards Therefore, I decided to pickup this one which is about the Mexican cartel I know you d think this could get pretty bloody too, and it did, but the focus was mainly on drug trafficking It follows two teenagers who get deeply influenced by the cartel that runs their neighborhood and not only end up joining, but I was required to read a true crime book for a challenge I am participa...At fifteen, Gabriel Cardona had it all He was smart, handsome, a fine athlete and a born leader By the time he was twenty he was a drug slinging, cold blooded killer What happened This meticulously researched book, covers Gabriel s life in Laredo Texas, near the Mexican border, a tough place to be brought up and an easy place to be lured in by the Mexican drug cartels that own the cities, on both sides of the border Much like inner city ghettos, these areas offer very littl...Wolf Boys by Dan Slater, published by Simon and Schuster.Category True Crime Publication Date September 13, 2016.I found this book to be very informative and scary Informative in that I gained a new insight on drug trafficking, and the horrors that are not only caused by those in the business but those wh...This book is frightening in that we see how two teenagers make choices that alter their lives in devastating and dangerous ways For me, I was really intrigued by the first 25% of the book and the last 25% of the book The middle of the book got a little murky for me at times mostly because I had a difficult time following all the different stories of all the different people involved personalproblem I enjoyed the first quarter of the book just because, for me, it was interesting witnessing This book is frightening in that we see how two teenagers make choices that alter their lives in devastating and dangerou...I received a copy of Wolf Boys through Goodreads giveaways Being from the Southern United States the description alone intrigued me but I found the book to be difficult to put down It tells the story of Gabriel Cardona, an American who comes to work for the Zetas Slater does a great job of explaining the greater forces at work in border towns like Laredo and how the cartels are digging in on this side of the border He brings up interesting points and explains things in an easy to understand I received a copy of Wolf Boys through Goodreads giveaways Being from the Southern United States the description alone intrigued me but I found the book to be difficult to put down It tells the story of Gabriel Cardona, an American who comes to work for the Zetas Slater does a great job of explaining the greater forces at work in border towns like Laredo and how the cartels are digging in on this side of the border He brings up interesting points and explains things in an easy to understan...An in depth analysis of the corrupting influence of the drug trade During a 2006 trip to Lake Falcon, located on the Mexico and USA border, the group I was with had a close encounter with the violence spun off from turf wars Two men in the group had sons returning from interior Mexico and they stopped for a burger on the Mexico side A gun battle broke out that left five men on the floor dead They were very lucky to escape with their lives when the victorious gang decided to release them At An in depth analysis of the corrupting influence of the drug trade During a 2006 trip to Lake Falcon, located on the Mexico and USA border, the group I was with had a close encounter with the violence spu...Many of those of us who have been born and raised in a privileged environment and maintain our privileged lifestyles like to view the world as a place where good people are good, bad people are bad, law enforcement is there to protect you, and that evil people ...These guys couldn t carry Tuco s jock strapAlthough Wolf Boys was not the book I was expecting, it was a book that informed and entertained the reader at the same time By expecting something different, I mean only that I thought the book was solely the story of Gabriel Cardona Wolf Boy and Robert Garcia Texas homicide detective who was born in Mexico But realistically, in telling the story of the Wolf Boys and the Mexican drug cartels with the cut throat competition, killings and retaliation , there is no way to limit the Although Wolf Boys was not the book I was expecting, it was a book that informed and entertained the reader at the same time By expecting something different, I mean only that I thought the book was solely the story of Gabriel Cardona Wolf Boy and Robert Garcia Texas homicide detective who was born in Mexico But reali...This is a fascinating book It doesn t expose anything earth shattering in the way of why young boys are seduced into the world of gangs, but the way it is written, so simply and matter of factly, really gives some perspective into these particular boys example It s especially amazing how most of this story covers just a few short years These boys go from somewhat promising athletes or students, to killers and gangsters, to life sentences all in the span of a few years usually before they turn This is a fascinating book It doesn t expose anything earth shattering in the way of why young boys are seduced into the world of gangs, but the way it is written, so simply and matter of factly, really gives some perspective into these particular boys example It s especially amazing how most of this story covers just a few short years These boys go from somewhat promising athletes or students, to killers and gangsters, to life sentences all in the span of a few years usually before they turn 25 Just a harrowing story for ab...

Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel
  • 20 February 2019
  • Hardcover
  • 352 pages
  • 1501126547
  • Dan Slater
  • Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel