The Devil's Highway
A True StoryFull 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. ... more
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Critical Praise
"It was a powerful book, and it changed my perspective on illegal immigration. Urrea did a good job of humanizing the issues without getting political or preachy, and that's a pretty thin tightrope to walk for such a volatile topic."
-Ericsiegmund.com
"Riveting."
–Raymond Fiore, Entertainment Weekly
"A bang-up survival story that also has the depth of genuine tragedy."
–Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure
"Urrea's writing is wickedly good-outrage tempered with concern channeled into deft prose."
–Kathleen Johnson, Kansas City Star
"The book's rare power is that it is both epic in scope-a trek through the wilderness in search of 'the promised land'-and intensely personal. . . . Urrea writes about U.S.-Mexican border culture with a tragic and beautiful intimacy that has no equal."
–Tom Montgomery-Fate, Boston Globe
"One of the great surrealistic tragedies of the global age. . . . Urrea has crafted an impassioned and poetic exploration of the dark side of globalization, where commodities flow free and people die in the desert."
–Jefferson Cowie, Chicago Tribune
- Format:
- TRADE PAPERBACK
- Publish Date:
- 9/19/2005
- Price:
- $13.99/$17.99
- ISBN:
- 9780316010801
- Pages:
- 272
- Size:
- 5-1/2" x 8-1/4"
