The collection Vampires of Juarez (Carnivore Trilogy) by Scarfe, Alan NEUF

"The First World and the Third World are the bread in this sandwich and we



are the baloney!" So a character describes the sprawling industrial war zone on



the U.S./Mexico border that is Ciudad Juarez, the epicenter of the drug trade



where the Third World comes to make what the First World wants.



Hundreds of young women have been abducted, raped and murdered here, yet



the ongoing tragedy of las desaparecidas remains unsolved.



Into this smoldering devils stew steps an eccentric English journalist, the



sometime employee of an occult magazine in London that attempts the



rational examination of irrational phenomena, on his way from Miami to Los



Angeles by bus.



The book is NOT a typical genre vampire novel but a satire that exposes the



hypocrisy of the War on Drugs and examines the cause of the horror that has



been perpetrated on the women of Juarez. It owes a great deal to the brilliant



collaboration of Charles Bowden and Julian Cardona.



The Italian reviewer Susanna Raule called the novel "fast-moving, eloquent an



funny and at the same time profoundly violent and distressing" but added that



"irony saves it from insupportable sadness and instead creates a fresh and



captivating story."



The Vampires of Juarez is the first book of Alan Scarfes Carnivore Trilogy



and is followed by The Demons of 9/11 and The Mask of the Holy Spirit.

Alan Scarfe is a well known Canadian actor and director. He was born in England and has had a distinguished fifty-year career in theatres across Canada, the United States and Europe. He has been an Associate Director of Canadas Stratford Festival and the Everyman Theater in Liverpool. He is also a familiar face on film and television. His novels have been published in Italy to critical acclaim and widely read.