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Wolf Boys: Two American Teenagers and Mexico's Most Dangerous Drug Cartel
Dan Slater
Simon & Schuster
September 2016
On Sale: September 13, 2016
352 pages
ISBN: 1501126547
EAN: 9781501126543
Kindle: B019DKO5K8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The story of two American teens recruited as killers for
a Mexican cartel, and their pursuit by a Mexican-American
detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unwinnable. What’s it like to be an employee of a global drug-
trafficking organization? And how does a fifteen-year-old
American boy go from star quarterback to trained
assassin, surging up the cartel corporate ladder? At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is the poster boy
American teenager: great athlete, bright, handsome, and
charismatic. But the streets of his border town of
Laredo, Texas, are poor and dangerous, and it isn’t long
before Gabriel abandons his promising future for the
allure of the Zetas, a drug cartel with roots in the
Mexican military. His younger friend Bart, as well as
others from Gabriel’s childhood, join him in working for
the Zetas, boosting cars and smuggling drugs, eventually
catching the eye of the cartel’s leadership. Meanwhile, Mexican-born Detective Robert Garcia has
worked hard all his life and is now struggling to raise
his family in America. As violence spills over the
border, Detective Garcia’s pursuit of the boys, and their
cartel leaders, puts him face to face with the urgent
consequences of a war he sees as unwinnable. In Wolf Boys Dan Slater shares their stories, taking us
from the Sierra Madre mountaintops to the dusty, dark
alleys of Laredo, Texas, on a harrowing, often brutal
journey into the heart of the Mexican drug trade.
Gabriel’s evolution from good-natured teenager into a
feared assassin is as inevitable as Garcia’s slow
realization of the futile nature of his work. A
nonfiction thriller, Wolf Boys depicts more than just
Gabriel, Bart, and the officers who took them down. It
shows, through vivid detail and rich, often moving,
narrative, the way in which the border itself is
changing, disappearing, and posing new, terrifying, and
yet largely unseen threats to American security.
Ultimately though, Wolf Boys is the intimate story of the
“lobos” themselves: boys turned into pawns for cartels.
Their stories show how poverty, ideas about identity, and
government ignorance have warped the definition of the
American dream.
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