Title:
The devil's highway : a true story
Author:
Edition:
First Back Bay paperback edition.
Publication Date:
2005
Publication Information:
New York : Back Bay Books, 2005.
Physical Description:
xvi, 255, 24 pages : map ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780316010801
9780316746717
9781439566268
Abstract:
An account of "twenty-six men who in May 2001 attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadly region known as the Devil's Highway ... Only twelve of the men made it out."--Page 4 of cover.
General Note:
Originally published in hardcover: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2004.
Includes reading group guide.
"Back Bay readers' pick"--Cover.
Contents:
Cutting the drag. The rules of the game -- Dead man's sign. In Veracruz ; The coyote and the chicken ; El guía ; Jesús walks among us ; In Sonoita ; A pepsi for the apocalypse ; Bad step at bluebird ; Killed by the light -- In desolation. The long walk ; Their names ; Broken promise ; The trees and the sun ; Helicopters -- Aftermath. Aftermath ; Home.
Language:
English
