I feel this book is a reliable source for a few reasons. To start out, the author is a border security expert who has documented the Mexican drug cartels for multiple years. She is also a medically retired Air Force captain, and former Special Agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Longmire has also worked for several years in the California Emergency Management Agency's Situational Awareness Unit where she focused exclusively on Mexican drug traffickers and the U.S.-Mexico border violence issues. This shows that Longmire has experience with studying these organizations, and is a reliable source.
The very first chapter talks about a man named Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera. Loera, also known by his nickname "El Chapo", is the boss of the Sinaloa drug cartel, the largest drug cartel in Mexico, and the most powerful drug cartel in the world. Loera is also currently the most wanted (non-terrorist) criminal in the United States and Mexico. His American bounty is currently five million dollars. In Mexico his bounty is 30 million pesos which equals to $2,364,402. The book details Loera's early life in La Tuna de Badiraguato. Loera worked for most of his childhood, and early teens in the poppy fields outside the town. In his early twenties, Loera left the fields and entered the drug trade with four men who created the Beltrán-Leyva Organization, which as of 2010 has been disbanded.
This book is very informational, and with the author's expertise in the subject, this is a reliable source.
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