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Through painstaking reporting and clear-eyed analysis...Dudley captures the origins of the gang as a human story of migration and migrant communities...A startling book. -- Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author The book benefits greatly from the perspectives of a gang leader, a recruit, the Salvadoran military, and U.S. federal and state agents...and reflects the author's deep knowledge of the subject, derived from his local reporting and codirection of a government funded three-year study of MS-13 in the United States. -- Library Journal (starred review) For anyone who has ever wondered why and how gang members are made, Dudley has the answers. -- Publishers Weekly A remarkable feat of reporting; the ways in which the United States is complicit in the creation and preservation of MS-13 might well keep you awake deep into the night, as it did me. -- Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises A cleareyed account of a criminal enterprise that is undeniably a threat to civil society wherever it turns up. -- Kirkus Reviews

Through painstaking reporting and clear-eyed analysis...Dudley captures the origins of the gang as a human story of migration and migrant communities, and a policy story, about the unintended consequences of US policy. By detailing the experiences of gang members and victims alike, he anatomizes the complex, fluid dynamics of this elusive transnational network. A startling book. -- Patrick Radden Keefe, New York Times bestselling author Steven Dudley's MS-13 is a remarkable feat of reporting; the ways in which the United States is complicit in the creation and preservation of MS-13 might well keep you awake deep into the night, as it did me. I can't shake this book, or the feeling that we have doomed so many young men to a life of violence. We have to do better for them, for our children, and for our collective future. -- Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises: What We Don't Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

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STEVEN DUDLEY is the cofounder of InSight Crime, a thinktank devoted to investigating organized crime and corruption in the Americas.As a journalist in Latin America, he spent the past two decades writing for theWashington Post, NPR, the BBC and the Miami Herald. MS-13 is the winner of theJ. Anthony Lukas Award. Christian Barillas is an Audie-nominated audiobook narrator and actor whose television credits include Modern Family, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Bridge. With a classical background in theater, he has appeared on stage at the Huntington Theatre Co., the Denver Center, and the Yale Repertory. He studied journalism and media at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and went on to receive his master's degree in acting from UCLA's School of Theater, Film, and Television.

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