RaveThe San Antonio Express-NewsBloodlines is more an anatomy of an investigation ... Del Bosque moves quickly through the case’s background and brings us to Lawson and his efforts to penetrate the Zetas’ horse business ... Her cast of characters in the federal agencies, most of whom were accessible to her, is larger, which gives readers more names to keep track of, but also shows how sprawling the investigation was ... Del Bosque’s take is also more journalistic, down to the extensive citations in the back of the book, and it stitches together in an understandable way the Zetas’ complex money-laundering apparatus, its weaknesses and how the feds exploited them ... This just-the-facts approach spares the readers some of [Joe] Tone’s supposition about what characters who weren’t interviewed must have been thinking, but she doesn’t go far beyond the narrative itself.
