PositiveThe Washington Independent Review of BooksIf Dan Slater’s account of cross-border transactions and violence is not entirely new, he gives it an intimately human face ... It is a tribute to Slater that he can make us see Gabriel more like a child soldier caught in a military conflict than as a monstrous killer ... Slater tells a skillful tale drawing Cardona and Garcia’s lives together, while bringing readers deeply into both sides of a borderland shaped by corruption and greed.
