num_pages: 260
description: A potent powerful and timely thriller about migrants drug lords and gang warfare set on the US/Mexican border by PRINTZ MEDAL winning and CARNEGIE MEDAL COSTA BOOK AWARD and GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE shortlisted novelist Marcus Sedgwick.Anapra is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Mexican city of Juarez - twenty metres outside town lies a fence and beyond it America - the dangerous goal of many a migrant. Faustino is one such trying to escape from the gang he's been working for. He's dipped into a pile of dollars he was supposed to be hiding and now he's on the run. He and his friend Arturo have only 36 hours to replace the missing money or they're as good as dead.Watching over them is Saint Death. Saint Death (or Santissima Muerte) - she of pure bone and charcoal-black eye she of absolute loyalty and neutral morality holy patron to rich and poor to prostitute and narco-lord criminal and police-chief. A folk saint a rebel angel a sinister guardian.
language: English
title: Saint Death
publisher: Orion Children's Books