Train To Nowhere: Inside an Immigrant Death Investigation
With a reporter s eye for detail and the deep sympathy of a novelist, Colleen Bradford Krantz recounts an archetypal episode in the story of 21st century immigration. Krantz accords a full measure of humanity to all the players in this gripping, tragic story the illegal immigrants desperate for a better life, the officials charged with regulating their passage, even the smugglers and coyotes responsible for their deaths. Our national immigration remains mired in confusion and injustice. This searing book belongs on the desks of everyone in a position to change it. --David Laskin, author, The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War and The Children s BlizzardKrantz brings the victims back to life; showing her readers that they are not just eleven statistics in the immigration debate, but eleven people who were seeking something better for themselves and their families. Train to Nowhere is a moving piece of investigative literature that conveys the human side of this tragic case. --John F. Quinn, Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation DirectorTrain To Nowhere was an important public television documentary. Now, reporter Colleen Bradford Krantz has written an equally important book that takes readers inside the investigation of the deaths of eleven illegal immigrants who died a gruesome death while seeking a better life in the United States. It is thoroughly and solidly reported, without finger pointing or casting blame what journalism is supposed to be. --Daniel K. Miller, Executive Director and General Manager, Iowa Public Television