PRAISE FOR THE BORDER

"It is hard not to like David Danelo, a marine turned journalist and author.  In the three months he spends traveling the length of America's southern border, from the Gulf of Mexico in the east to the shores of California in the west, he displays a pleasing concern for almost everyone except politicians and drug pushers.  If you want a feel for this strange, dangerous, and inspiring entity that is both the border and la frontera, this is a pretty good place to start." - The Economist

"More than 250 million people legally cross the U.S.-Mexico border each year.  Immense problems loom as drug money leads to violence.  Danelo provides invaluable information and insight in this book, which deserves a wide and attentive audience." - George P. Shultz; U.S. Secretary of State, 1982-89

"Danelo's picturesque reportage reveals how the fraught political debate around immigration and border security masks a very complex set of issues, geographies, economic and emotional ties, histories, and subcultures... his overall assessment moves considerably beyond the simplistic war-zone rhetoric in the media." - Publisher's Weekly 

"Danelo brings a refreshing and unusual point of view to the matter.  This is a well written and honest book." - LitMob.com

"This book is something else... an unequivocally compelling read." - Texas Books in Review

"David Danelo has captured much of the confusing and complex nature of la frontera, the U.S.-Mexican border that has become a contentious national boundary.  The Border is an excellent first step in trying to understand the border, which has no solutions, some errors, some hope for the future, and some lingering despair.  Well worth reading." - Proceedings

"Author David Danelo set out on a lone journey to crack the code on this troubled -- but unexpectedly seductive -- human and natural landscape.  Activists, left or right, will find this book uncomfortable, but its honesty makes it a great education for the rest of us. " - New York Post

"While Danelo gets the details right... he can also pull back and analyze.  His border story is much more than a travelogue" - Philadelphia Evening Bulletin

"The first 535 copies of The Border printed should be delivered to our congressmen and senators.  This is a book that discusses immigration without a political slant, which makes it a rarity in these days... The Border is an impartial, honest, and well-written synopsis of the situation on the border.  Danelo asks all the right questions -- now let's see if anyone in Washington can provide an equally thoughtful answer." - Military Writers Society of America 

U.S.-Mexico Border Articles
Disorder on the Border, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, October 2009
An Afternoon in Juarez, Greater Austin Crime Commission, Spring 2009
Mexico's bloody drug war, Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2008
US Election Special: Mexican Border, Jane's Intelligence Review, December 2008
The Border War, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings; October 2008
The Border Counterinsurgency, San Diego Union-Tribune; August 6, 2008

      PRAISE FOR BLOOD STRIPES

  "Gritty and nuanced.  This powerhouse work establishes
  Danelo as a first-rate historian of contemporary war." -
  Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill 
 
  "Vivid and eminently readable." - Booklist

  "An intense account of war, raw as a wound, that reads
  as swiftly as a novel... a street-brawler, blood-on-the-floor
  account that captures the way Marine grunts live, talk, 
  and fight." - New York Post 

"Danelo has captured the soul of the Marine Corps.  The honor, terror, pride, and heartbreak of the Iraq War are in these pages." - Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer