Book recommendation: _On the Plain of Snakes_, by Paul Theroux

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I tried, I really tried.
A long time reader and admirer of Theroux's travel writings. But this current effort greatly disappointed me after finishing Part 1 which is a 40 page litany of cartel violence in the most gruesome detail. I understand his need to open the book with some context as to where he is about to travel but it goes on and on and gave me no reason to continue further.
Too bad, he was always an enjoyable read with an individual style but this opening dump of decapitated cartel victims got real old, real fast.