Ioan Grillo

Ioan Grillo is a journalist specializing in crime and drugs for media including the New York Times, Time magazine and the BBC World Service . Based in Mexico City, he has also worked the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, CNN, Reuters, the Associated Press, and Esquire. He is the author of El Narco , a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Gangster Warlords , a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Guardian Book of the Year.

Ioan Grillo is a journalist specializing in crime and drugs for media including the New York Times, Time magazine and the BBC World Service . Based in Mexico City, he has also worked the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, CNN, Reuters, the Associated Press, and Esquire. He is the author of El Narco , a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and Gangster Warlords , a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Guardian Book of the Year. See less