The Devil's Highway
Subtitle: A True Story
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: September 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780316010801
Subjects: 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
First sentence: Five men stumbled out of the mountain pass so sunstruck they didn't know their own names, couldn't remember where they'd come from, had forgotten how long they'd been lost.
Description: Describes the attempt of twenty-six men to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, a region known as the Devil's Highway, detailing their harrowing ordeal and battle for survival against impossible odds. Only 12 men came back out. 2 maps.