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 …
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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."
Brossura, 272 pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 19 Settembre 2005 da Back Bay Books.
Argomenti
- Crime & criminology
- Immigration & emigration
- POLITICS & GOVERNMENT
- Sociology
- Human smuggling
- Emigration And Immigration
- Hispanic American Sociology
- Social Science
- Social conditions
- True Crime
- Mexico
- USA
- Illegal aliens
- Emigration & Immigration
- Government - U.S. Government
- Social Science / General
- Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies
- Crimes against
- Mexican-American Border Region