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On the non-fiction side, Narcoamérica, by Colectivo Dromómanos
The authors of this book, an ensemble of journalists, traveled the route of cocaine backwards: from New York to South America, to find the stories of the people whose lives are in some way or another affected by the drug industry. This book talks about a Central America where death is so much of a daily occurrence that a mother doesn't shed a tear for the death of her son, a Brazil where women have sex in exchange for another dose, a Bolivia where there are places in which living without chewing the coca plant is just impossible and its harvest is legal, a Mexico where the police hands a group of 43 captured students to a drug cartel, never to be seen again, and many other places. This is a great book which explains the human costs of the drug industry.