The Fight to Save Juárez: Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War is a 2013 book by Ricardo C. Ainslie, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

It is published by the University of Texas Press and documents the Mexican Drug War in Ciudad Juárez in the years 2008-2010.

He, along with newspaper reporter Raymundo Ruiz, human rights ombudsman Gustavo de la Rosa, and a mistress named "Elena" are four major sources.

[4] Candace E. Griffith of West Virginia University wrote that the book can cater to a wide audience, from politicians to ordinary people.

[5] Kirkus Reviews concluded that the book is "A hard-nosed, cleareyed analysis of a legacy of institutionalized corruption and its dire consequences for human lives.