Mexicanization sweeps across Europe

Big favorite for the first volume of Cartel 1011, “The builders”. Mattias Köping has written a terribly gripping book, in perfect resonance with current times. It delves into the heart of drug trafficking and all the struggles for influence that underlie this environment. And the struggle to take power in a city deal point in France or in Europe generally begins with a big war on the other side of the ocean. It all begins in the Yucatan, a peninsula popular with tourists who come to let loose, “spring break” and drug and alcohol consumption galore for young Americans, consumption of all other illicit products for more adults. The Yucatan is the stronghold of the Hernandez who have taken over everything that brings in money. Real estate, luxury hotels, drug trafficking of course, sex slaves of all kinds too, water trafficking, sand trafficking too, nothing escapes the crime conglomerate. The peninsula, known for its architectural heritage, lives like the whole country at a time of settling scores. Always more violent. But when the police see the accumulation of dismembered bodies reconstituted into human pyramids, with the signature engraved on the skin these numbers “1,011”, there is no longer any doubt, a new cartel wants its place in the sun . This violence crosses the ocean. Same number in letters in blood in Valencia in Spain, in Naples and even in Pau. A war on an unprecedented scale has begun. Led by those who want to be the new masters of drugs, it will be terrible. Decapitation with a chainsaw, acid baths, torture, kidnapping and sequestration, the list is not exhaustive to enslave or bring to heel.

A monumental and promising work, Cartel 1011 takes the reader from one world to another: among the police officers who are still in the fog; alongside Jacinto, the priest of Cancun who wants to help the oppressed. On the beaches of India with the sand thieves but also with the Cartel killers who track their prey, or even with Bobby Maxwell, the rather perverse American who will, unwittingly, become a drug trafficker. But in none of these worlds will pity find a place… The recently used terms of “Mexicanization” regarding shootings linked to drug trafficking in real life further reinforce the addiction to reading. No one is safe!