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Chicago Public Librarys Best Books of 2016

The 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.

Whats 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 isnt 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 Gabriels childhood join him in working for the Zetas boosting cars and smuggling drugs eventually catching the eye of the cartels 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.

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