Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom WainwrightMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is what good non-fiction needs to be. Informative, but also powerful. The reporting is journalistic and human, it never loses sight of the people its talking about. It’s this inspiring mix of data and statistics mixed with field reporting that makes everything compelling, factual and easily understood.
It covers a lot of ground, is beautifully researched and feels like an adventure from start to finish. I learned so much reading it, especially because of the way it structures a coherent but diverse set of topics to delve into to fully explore the core thesis.
There was bias, I felt. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, especially in a book like this. It is pushing a specific perspective on the issue, a perspective the writer believes in and does a convincing job of presenting. Still, it would be nice if that was more obvious, that this doesn’t necessarily cover in-depth the numerous arguments against the conclusion drawn here. It’s not the last word, rather a step in the research needed to make up one’s mind. A pretty cool step, since it covers a lot of background, but not the only step. It’s not the norm to acknowledge this, but I still wish it did.
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