Devil's Highway : A True Story

by Urrea, Luis Alberto

• ISBN13: 9780316746717
• ISBN10: 0316746711
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-02
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co

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."

Table of Contents

Author's Note	xi
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