Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel Audiobook (Free)

The tale of two American teenagers recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and the Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unstoppable. “A hell of the story…undeniably gripping.” (THE BRAND NEW York Moments)

In this astonishing story, journalist Dan Slater recounts the unforgettable odyssey of Gabriel Cardona. Initially, Gabriel may be the poster-boy American teen: athletic, shiny, good-looking, and charismatic. But the ghettos of Laredo, Texas-his boundary town-are full of about Wolf Kids: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Many Dangerous Medication Cartel smugglers and gangsters and patrolled by one of the largest law-enforcement complexes in the globe. It isn’t long before Gabriel abandons his encouraging future for the allure of juvenile criminal offense, which leads him across the river to Mexico’s many dangerous drug cartel: Los Zetas. Close friends from his child years join him and eventually they catch the eye of the cartel’s leadership.

As the cartel wars spill over the border, Gabriel and his crew are sent to the States to work. But in Texas, the teen strike guys encounter a Mexican-born homicide detective driven to maintain cartel assault out of his used country. Detective Robert Garcia’s pursuit of the boys puts him face-to-face with the immediate consequences and brand-new security threats of the drug war he views as unwinnable.

In Wolf Boys, Slater takes readers on a harrowing, often brutal journey in to the heart from the Mexican medication trade. Ultimately though, Wolf Kids is the close story from the lobos: teens turned into pawns for the cartels. A non-fiction thriller, it reads using the psychological clarity of a great novel, yet offers its revelations through outstanding reporting.