The Least of Us

by Sam Quiñones

  • Bloomsbury Publishing
  • 2021
  • ISBN: 978-1635574357
  • 432 pages
  • WorldCat
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About the Book

Sam Quiñones was among the first to see the dangers of synthetic drugs and a new generation of kingpins whose product could be made in Magic Bullet blenders. In fentanyl, traffickers landed a painkiller a hundred times more powerful than morphine. They laced it into cocaine, meth, and counterfeit pills to cause tens of thousands of deaths--at the same time as Mexican traffickers made methamphetamine cheaper and more potent. He investigated these new threats, discovering how addiction is exacerbated by consumer-product corporations. Amid a landscape of despair, Quinones found hope in those embracing the forgotten and ignored, illuminating the striking truth that we are only as strong as our most vulnerable. ebook icon Audio book icon

Apple Best Books of 2021 | Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction | Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal | Shortlisted for the Zocalo Book Prize
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About the Author

Sam Quiñones lived and worked as a freelance writer in Mexico from 1994 to 2004. He returned to the United States in 2004 to take a job with the LA Times, where for 10 years he wrote stories about immigrants, street gangs, drug trafficking, and marijuana growers in Northern California. In 2008, he received Columbia University's Maria Moors Cabot Prize for a career of excellence in reporting about Latin America.

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