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The Wounded Eagle: Three Years in the Mexican Drug War, Volume 1
The Wounded Eagle: Three Years in the Mexican Drug War, Volume 1
The Wounded Eagle: Three Years in the Mexican Drug War, Volume 1
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The Wounded Eagle: Three Years in the Mexican Drug War, Volume 1

By Chris Covert

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Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico. Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years. The work contains news articles which were summarized, translated and rewritten along with original reporting for a detailed snapshot of one of the most violent periods in Mexican history.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherChris Covert
Release dateJul 7, 2013
ISBN9781301441563
The Wounded Eagle: Three Years in the Mexican Drug War, Volume 1
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Chris Covert

Chris Covert currently lives in Oklahoma City and writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. His articles have also appeared on FrontPageMag.com, TheTruthAboutGuns.com and NewsRealBlog.com Chris has written sports and business news for Oklahoma daily newspapers. He has also worked as a mechanic, a machinist and a bookkeeper, and has been self employed. Chris Covert was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1954. He served briefly in the US Army as a tank driver. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Journalism from the University of Central Oklahoma. Chris is currently writing his third novel, set in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the mid 1980s. His latest non-fiction work is tentatively scheduled for release late 2013 to early 2014.

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