
Jack Dykinga
Donna Seaman in Booklist wrote: “Bowden is a blood-and-guts journalist with a poet’s sensibility, a noirish naturalist, a ferociously inquisitive witness to life’s glory and horror torn between the desire to embrace the world and the need to hole up in a drapes-drawn motel room. Bowden covers the borderland drug culture in such high-voltage dispatches as Down by the River (2002), while also writing darkly rhapsodic works of memory and reflection.” He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
The tide of humans coursing northward across the Mexican-American border is a force of nature like no other