This brief, dense book of theory and analysis is as brutal and harrowing as you'd expect. "Extreme capitalism converges here: plutocratic, corporate, monopolistic, global, speculative, wealth-concentrating, and predatory, founded on military machinations and media control. Ciudad Juárez is the realization of planned speculation that practices on city-slums and on the people there who are considered of little value." A necessary read on life under capitalism and the manifestation of misogynist violence. Will there be more of this, asks the author, in cities all over the world? We all know the answer. ( )