Fear is Just a Word by Azam Ahmed PDF
Fear is Just a Word
A riveting true story of a mother who fought
back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her own brand of
justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter— from a
global investigative correspondent for The New York Times
“Azam
Ahmed has written a page-turning mystery but also a stunning,
color-saturated portrait of the collapse of formal justice in one
Mexican town.”—Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Directorate S
Fear
Is Just a Word begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the
United States, as fifty-six-year-old Miriam Rodríguez stalks one of the
men she believes was involved in the murder of her daughter Karen. He
is her target number eleven, a member of the drug cartel that has
terrorized and controlled what was once Miriam’s quiet hometown of San
Fernando, Mexico, almost one hundred miles from the U.S. border. Having
dyed her hair red as a disguise, Miriam watches, waits, and then
orchestrates the arrest of this man, exacting her own version of
justice.
Woven into this deeply researched, moving account is the
story of how cartels built their power in Mexico, escalated the use of
violence, and kidnapped and murdered tens of thousands. Karen was just
one of the many people who disappeared, and Miriam, a brilliant,
strategic, and fearless woman, begged for help from the authorities and
paid ransom money she could not afford in hopes of saving her daughter.
When that failed, she decided that “fear is just a word,” and began a
crusade to track down Karen’s killers and to help other victimized
families in their search for justice.
What do people do when
their country and the peaceful town where they have grown up become
unrecognizable, suddenly places of violence and fear? Azam Ahmed takes
us into the grieving of a country and a family to tell the mesmerizing
story of a brave and brilliant woman determined to find out what
happened to her daughter, and to see that the criminals who murdered her
were punished. Fear Is Just a Word is an unforgettable and moving
portrait of a woman, a town, and a country, and of what can happen when
violent forces leave people to seek justice on their own.
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