The Devil's Highway

By Luis Alberto Urrea

Subjects: United states, emigration and immigration, Emigration and immigration--social aspects, Illegal aliens--crimes against, Politics, Nonfiction, Human smuggling, Jv6475 .u77 2005, 304.873072, Human smuggling--mexican-american border region, Crimes against, Illegal aliens--crimes against--mexican-american border region, Illegal aliens, Emigration and immigration, Mexican-american border region, Social conditions, Social aspects

Description: The author of "Across the Wire" offers brilliant investigative reporting of what went wrong when, in May 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona. Only 12 men came back out. "Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able to achieve.--"Los Angeles Times Book Review."