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Noah Hurowitz is a journalist based in New York City. He covered the trial of El Chapo for Rolling Stone, and his work has also appeared in The Village Voice, The Baffler, New York magazine, and many more. El Chapo is his first book.
Hurowitz fleshes out the harrowing details of Mexico's drug violence and high-level corruption, and draws on interviews with former cartel insiders to document El Chapo's staggering ambitions and deep-seated paranoia.... [The author's] access to players on both sides of the drug war impresses. -Publishers Weekly A fast-paced study of the infamous, now imprisoned Mexican drug lord and the social structures that supported and enabled his rise...Readers won't look at the war on drugs the same way after reading Hurowitz's damning account. -Kirkus El Chapo buries the sensationalism and strips the myths from Mexico's most famous drug lord. Instead Hurowitz gives us a complex, but no less rollicking, portrait of a man caught between America's never-ending demand for narcotics, its persistent need for a scapegoat and a Mexican state always happy to dish one up. El Chapo is true crime biography done right. -Benjamin T. Smith, author of The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
