The tale of two American teenagers recruited as killers for any Mexican cartel, and the Mexican-American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unstoppable. “A hell of the story…undeniably gripping.” (The New York Situations)

In this astonishing story, journalist Dan Slater recounts the unforgettable odyssey of Gabriel Cardona. Initially, Gabriel is the poster-boy American teenager: athletic, shiny, attractive, and charismatic. But the ghettos of Laredo, Texas-his boundary town-are full of about Wolf Kids: Two American Teenagers and Mexico’s Most Dangerous Drug Cartel smugglers and gangsters and patrolled by among the largest law-enforcement complexes in the globe. It isn’t long before Gabriel abandons his promising upcoming for the allure of juvenile crime, which leads him over the river to Mexico’s most dangerous drug cartel: Los Zetas. Friends from his childhood join him and finally they catch the eye from the cartel’s leadership.

As the cartel wars spill over the border, Gabriel and his crew are sent to the Expresses to work. But in Texas, the teen hit men encounter a Mexican-born homicide detective identified to maintain cartel assault out of his followed nation. Detective Robert Garcia’s pursuit of the boys places him face-to-face with the immediate consequences and new security threats of a drug war he views as unwinnable.

In Wolf Boys, Slater takes readers on the harrowing, often brutal journey into the heart from the Mexican drug trade. Ultimately though, Wolf Boys is the personal story of the lobos: teenagers converted into pawns for the cartels. A non-fiction thriller, it reads using the psychological clarity of an excellent novel, yet presents its revelations through outstanding reporting.