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A crusading Mexican-American journalist searches for justice and hope in an increasingly violent Mexico

In the last decade, more than 100,000 people have been killed or disappeared in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican-American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Ju rez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. One night, Corchado received a tip that he could be the next target of the Zetas, a violent paramilitary group--and that he had twenty-four hours to find out if the threat was true.

Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man's quest to report the truth of his country--as he races to save his own life.

Alfredo Corchado is a Nieman, Woodrow Wilson, and Rockefeller fellow and the Mexican bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News. In 2000, he was the first reporter granted an interview with the newly elected Vicente Fox, Mexico's first democratic president. Corchado has received Columbia University's Maria Moors Cabot Prize for his reporting and the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism from Colby College. He lives in Mexico City.

Timothy Andrés Pabon is an English- and Spanish-speaking voice-over artist who has worked extensively in advertising and audiobook narration. He has had acting roles on House of Cards and has also been a costar on HBO's acclaimed series The Wire opposite country music legend Steve Earl. As a stage actor, he has worked off-Broadway at the June Havoc Theatre, and his regional credits include Center Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, the Hippodrome, Olney Theatre, Rep Stage, and GALA Hispanic Theatre.