Early in chapter one of Dark Age Ahead, eminent urban theorist Jane Jacobs wrote, unequivocally, "we show signs of rushing headlong into a Dark Age." In Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields, journalist Charles Bowden states in an unnerving prose style that meanders between the voice of a reporter made numb by the telling of uncountable deaths and a poet trying to make sense of violence that is equally random, unbidden, and appalling in its brutality, that the Dark Age is now here.