Looking for trouble in the Sierra Madre

Bandit Roads. By Richard Grant. Little, Brown, €15.20

Richard Grant can blame Robert Frost. By fulfilling an irrepressible urge to opt for the road less travelled, he almost lost his life after a prolonged spell dealing with drug-fuelled intimidation, sickening excess and numerous feral locals.

This book is the story of Grant’s trek into Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountain range, where the law is held in little or no regard, the drugs trade is ...