Fear Is Just a Word

Azam Ahmed - paperback A vigilante mother fights back against the drug cartels who kidnapped her daughter, in this “page-turning mystery . . . [and] color-saturated portrait of the collapse of formal justice in one Mexican town” (Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Achilles Trap).A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New Yorker, The Economist, Chicago Public LibraryThis unputdownable book begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the United States. Miriam Rodríguez is stalking a man she believes was involved in the kidnapping and murder of her daughter. He is a member of the drug cartel that now controls Miriam’s once-quiet hometown of San Fernando, Mexico. Suspenseful and inspiring, this is the story of a remarkable woman who stopped at nothing to seek justice for her family and for the families of others. Woven into this deeply researched, moving account is the story of how cartels built their power in Mexico, escalated the use of violence, and kidnapped and murdered tens