The Least of Us

Over the last 15 years, he has filed the best dispatches about Mexican migration and its effects on the United States and Mexico, bar none. --Los Angeles Times Book Review, on DREAMLAND [A] compelling examination . . . a driven and important narrative. --Wall Street Journal, on DREAMLAND Quinones' research ensures that there is something legitimately interesting (and frequently horrifying) on every page. --Entertainment Weekly, on DREAMLAND Dreamland is at once a heartbreaking narrative about the individuals in the grips of addiction, and a thorough history of how that addiction was made possible by a variety of key players . . . a must-read for anyone grappling with the story of heroin addiction in the United States. --Bustle, on DREAMLAND Quinones recounts individual tales - from junkies in Portland, Ore., to pill mills in Appalachia to entrepreneurial heroin traffickers from small-town Mexico - to describe a catastrophic synergy in which over-prescription of opioid painkillers begets addicts, many of whom then turn to heroin, which is cheaper and just as ubiquitous. --Boston Globe, DREAMLAND included in Best Books of 2015 You won't find this story told better anywhere else, from the economic hollowing-out of the middle class to the greedy and reckless marketing of pharmaceutical opiates to the remarkable entrepreneurial industry of the residents of the obscure Mexican state of Nayarit . . . Dreamland--true crime, sociology, and expose--illuminates a catastrophe unfolding all around us, right now. --Slate, on DREAMLAND The most original writer on Mexico and the border out there. --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, on DREAMLAND Former Los Angeles Times reporter Sam Quinones deftly recounts how a flood of prescription pain meds, along with black tar heroin from Nayarit, Mexico, transformed the once-vital blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, and other American communities into heartlands of addiction. With prose direct yet empathic, he interweaves the stories of Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics agents, and small-town folks whose lives were upended by the deluge of drugs, leaving them shaking their heads, wondering how they could possibly have resisted --Mother Jones, on DREAMLAND