Ed Vulliamy is a journalist and writes for the Guardian and Observer. He has been shortlisted for an Amnesty International Media Award for his reporting on Mexico. For his work in Bosnia, Italy, the US and Iraq he has won a James Cameron Award and an Amnesty International Media Award and has been named International Reporter of the Year (twice) and runner-up at the Foreign Press Association Awards. In 1996 he became the first journalist to ever testify at an international crimes court, at the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia. A believer in the duty of journalists to testify in matters of humanitarian law, he has since lectured extensively on the subject.
The most vivid book so far published in English on the bloody calamity that has been visited on Mexico's northern border lands -- Hugh O'Shaughnessy * Observer * Previously, to understand the ruthlessness, ambition and impact of today's global criminals, you needed to read Roberto Saviano's Gomorrah and Misha Glenny's McMafia. Now, you also need to read Vulliamy's Amexica * Sunday Times * A harrowing read about the narcowars in Mexico, economic exploitation and the horrors of the globalised drug trade -- Fatima Bhutto * New Statesman * A work of vivid social reportage * Spectator * Amexica is fascinating, infuriating and inspiring. Essential reading -- Don Winslow, author of The Power of the Dog