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Dan Werb, PhD, is an assistant professor in epidemiology at the University of California San Diego and the University of Toronto. He has received major grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, and other organizations. His writing has appeared in publications such as the Believer and the Walrus, where his feature The Fix on new tactics for treating injection drug use won a Canadian National Magazine Award. He is based in San Diego and Toronto.
The author's steely focus and smooth, vivid prose make his encounters, which are often heartbreaking, come fully to life. . . . his text shines a necessary light on Tijuana's epidemic of 'femicide' and its unrivaled drug and poverty problems . . . Werb cuts through the desolation to get at the truth of the region's vexing problem. --Kirkus Reviews Werb's personal odyssey and unique approach offer valuable insights into the tragedy of femicide on the border, where communities on both sides are inescapably interdependent. A powerful addition to investigative coverage of the volatile borderland. --Booklist Dan Werb combines his expertise as a trained epidemiologist with his keen discernment as an investigative journalist to depict what happens when poverty, human desperation, and unfathomable greed at the highest levels of a society mix with imperial ambition and a criminally ill-conceived policy towards drug use. It is a riveting and heartbreaking story, told with eloquence and compassion. --Gabor Mat , MD, bestselling author of IN THE REALM OF HUNGRY GHOSTS City of Omens is an urgent and needed account of a desperate problem. The perils that Mexico's women face haunt the conscience of a nation. --Alfredo Corchado, author of HOMELANDS and MIDNIGHT IN MEXICO
