{"product_id":"9781635578485","title":"Blood Gun Money : How America Arms Gangs and Cartels","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eBlood Gun Money\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Ioan Grillo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands of criminals and drug lords.” –Adam Winkler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the street corners of inner city America and across the border as Mexico's powerful cartels battle to control the drug trade. Guns and drugs aren't often connected in our heated discussions of gun control-but they should be. In Ioan Grillo's groundbreaking new work of investigative journalism, he shows us this connection by following the market for guns in the Americas and how it has made the continent the most murderous on earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrillo travels to gun manufacturers, strolls the aisles of gun shows and gun shops, talks to FBI agents who have infiltrated biker gangs, hangs out on Baltimore street corners, and visits the ATF gun tracing center in West Virginia. Along the way, he details the many ways that legal guns can cross over into the black market and into the hands of criminals, fueling violence here and south of the border. Simple legislative measures would help close these loopholes, but America's powerful gun lobby is uncompromising in its defense of the hallowed Second Amendment. Perhaps, however, if guns were seen not as symbols of freedom, but as key accessories in our epidemics of addiction, the conversation would shift. \u003ci\u003eBlood Gun Money\u003c\/i\u003e is that conversation shifter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ioan Grillo is one of the best reporters covering the cartels, crime and carnage south of the border. In\u003ci\u003e Blood Gun Money\u003c\/i\u003e, he traces the drug-gun pipeline that runs straight from that violence to the beating heart of America. It's even weirder and bloodier than the fiction.” —\u003ci\u003eDon Winslow, author of THE CARTEL and THE BORDER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Written in a gripping narrative style and with details gleaned from firsthand reporting, Ioan Grillo has written a vitally important book about the 'iron river.'” —\u003ci\u003eJon Lee Anderson, author of CHE GUEVARA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An alarming and deeply reported account of how the U.S. gun trade fuels bloodshed, terror, and refugee crises throughout the Western hemisphere . . . This expert account makes the high cost of America's thirst for guns crystal clear.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ioan Grillo is one of the bravest and most thoughtful journalists in the world. If you want to know what's really going on, you have to read him-and especially this excellent book.” —\u003ci\u003eJohann Hari, author of CHASING THE SCREAM\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781635578485\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40826251182286,"sku":"9781635578485","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_1418b645-7adb-45c8-9fa7-a63595db7230.jpg?v=1643198558","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781635578485","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}