The Devil's Highway

by Urrea, Luis Alberto

• ISBN13: 9780316010801
• ISBN10: 0316010804
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-19
• Publisher: HACHETTE

Summary

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."

Author Biography

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his landmark work of nonficiton The Devil's Highway, Luis Alberto Urrea is also the bestselling author of the novels The Hummingbird's Daughter, Into the Beautiful North, and Queen of America, as well as the story collection The Water Museum, a PEN/Faulkner Award finalist.

He has won the Lannan Literary Award, an Edgar Award, and a 2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among many other honors. Born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and American mother, he lives outside of Chicago and teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	xv
PART ONE: CUTTING THE DRAG	1	(40)
1. The Rules of the Game	3	(38)
PART TWO: DEAD MAN'S SIGN	41	(90)
2. In Veracruz	43	(11)
3. The Coyote and the Chicken	54	(12)
4. El Guia	66	(5)
5. Jesús Walks Among Us	71	(13)
6. In Sonoita	84	(14)
7. A Pepsi for the Apocalypse	98	(8)
8. Bad Step at Bluebird	106	(9)
9. Killed by the Light	115	(16)
PART THREE: IN DESOLATION	131	(46)
10. The Long Walk	133	(10)
11. Their Names	143	(7)
12. Broken Promise	150	(12)
13. The Trees and the Sun	162	(7)
14. Helicopters	169	(8)
PART FOUR: AFTERMATH	177	(45)
15. Aftermath	179	(15)
16. Home	194	(28)
Acknowledgments	222	(7)
Index	229	(12)
Reading Group Guide	241