# Murder City

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- Authors: [Charles Bowden](https://www.bookquiver.com/charles-bowden)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-03-22

## Description

Ciudad Juárez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad or Mogadishu. In Murder City , Charles Bowden has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants- a raped beauty queen, a repentant hit man, a journalist fleeing for his life- with a broader meditation on the town's descent into anarchy, Bowden reveals how Juárez's culture of violence will not only worsen but inevitably spread north.

## Editions

### Murder City

- Publisher: bold_type_books
- ISBN: 978-15-6858-645-8
- Published: 2011-03-22
- Language: en_GB