State of War, William Wheeler
State of War, William Wheeler
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State of War
MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence

Author: William Wheeler

Narrator: William Wheeler

Unabridged: 3 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/14/2020


Synopsis

The real story behind El Salvador's MS-13 gang and how they have perpetuated three generations of conflict and led to scores of migrants seeking a new life in the United States.

Born in Los Angeles, the gang MS-13 was founded in the 1980s by Salvadoran refugees who had been hardened in a civil war stoked by American foreign policy. But the gang found its way home a decade later, as the U.S. began deporting thousands of convicts each year back to the Northern Triangle--El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. Today, those countries share the world's highest murder rates, and account for 70 percent of the migrants arriving at the U.S. southern border.

Foreign correspondent William Wheeler tracks MS-13 from L.A., where he meets the founders of the gang, to El Salvador, where three generations of Salvadorans have been drawn into an escalating cycle of conflict. State of War tells the tragic story of a brutal civil war that has never ended.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Charles

Entertaining, even if a little formulaic. My major fault would be the realization of VR; this was written in 06 pretending to be 2010 and the tech just moved too fast for the portrayal in this novel to look anything but silly. However that can be contemporized and forgiven. Solid book. Note: I read......more

Goodreads review by Gabor

It was a good solid story. It's interesting to see how much the world has changed, and how they've imagined the future. Mind you this was written in 2003 and I wa reading this in 2020. Anyway, the story was good, the characters are likeable. Although we did not learnt much more about cybernation, ex......more

Another solid book in the series - a few parts are left dangling but for the most part this one tied most of the loose ends up nicely. It will be interesting to see where the series goes in the next book based on the plan exits from a few of the main characters.......more

Goodreads review by Paula

I did not find the book up to the standard of other Clancy books. The characters were superficial and the plot simple.......more