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Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter and a Mother's Quest for Justice

by Azam Ahmed

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A mother’s pursuit of justice amid cartel violence

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing

    Longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing.

  • Editorial selection

    A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year

    Named a best book of the year by the Chicago Public Library.

  • Critical praise

    Praise from Steve Coll

    Steve Coll praises the book as a page-turning mystery and a portrait of the collapse of formal justice in a Mexi...

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A mother’s pursuit of justice amid cartel violence

Azam Ahmed’s account centers on a mother confronting the drug cartels after her daughter is kidnapped and murdered. Set against the collapse of formal justice in a Mexican town, the story examines what happens when the institutions meant to protect people fail and a family seeks another path to accountability. Framed as investigative true crime, the book connects one family’s ordeal to the wider presence of organized crime and the limits of official justice.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in investigative true crime and organized crime
  • Readers seeking accounts focused on justice, impunity, and a family’s response to violence

Themes

Organized crimeJustice and impunityFamily and loss

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Book overview

A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her own brand of justice to avenge the kidnapping and murder of her daughter--from a Pulitzer Prize-winning global investigative correspondent for The New York Times

"Azam Ahmed has written a page-turning mystery but also a stunning, color-saturated portrait of the collapse of formal justice in one Mexican town."--Steve Coll, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Directorate S

LONGLISTED FOR THE MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WRITING - A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New Yorker, The Economist, Chicago Public Library

Fear Is Just a Word begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the United States, as fifty-six-year-old Miriam Rodr
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