On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. The group, traveling in a borrowed bus, were on their way to protest cuts in their operating funds. Explanations for their disappearance were given, but none appeared to "hold water." In this volume, Hernandez, one of Mexico's leading investigative journalists, now living in the United States, has literally put her own life in jeopardy to offer a possible account of what actually took place. Hernandez contends that crimes of violence, like this one, are often committed for political reasons, and that the drug trade is an important factor. For example, she surmises that the bus in which the students were riding might have been mistaken for one carrying vast amounts of heroin. Hernandez writes fluidly, with meticulous details to back up her case. VERDICT A powerful investigation for fans of true crime and nonfiction about the international drug trade.—Frances O. Sandiford, formerly with Green Haven Correctional Facility Lib., Stormville, NY