El Sicario : the autobiography of a Mexican assassin

Summary: El Sicario is the hidden face of America's war on drugs: A contract killer who functioned as a comandante in the Chihuahuan state police, attended an FBI training course in the United States, and who, for twenty years, kidnapped, tortured, and murdered people targeted by the Mexican drug cartels. Then he left the killing fields alive and turned to Christ. Now, living as a fugitive with a cartel contract on his life, he tell his own story in this unprecedented and chilling monoluge. He describes not only torture and murder, but also the total corruption of the Mexican state. In his world, terror and slaughter are simply tools in implementing policy for both the cartels and the police. When he headed the state police anti-kidnapping squad in Juarez, he was also running a kidnapping ring in Juarex. When he was killing people for money in Juarez, he was sharpening his marksmanship at the federal ploice range. He speaks as a free man and of his own free will-there are no criminal charges against him in the United States or Mexico. he is a lonely voice not one with his background has ever come forward and talked. He is the future, there are thousands more like him in Mexico. He speaks the truth no one wants to hear.