El Sicario

the long version

A repentant Mexican hitman tells the unvarnished truth about the war on drugs on the American-Mexican border. El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs. He has executed hundreds, is an expert in torture, spent years working for the state police, and received training from the FBI. In sober, grim and graphic detail he offers a series of confessions. This is a deeply chilling and important book, revealing the brutality of the drugs underworld as you have never seen it before.