The Devil's Highway: A True Story

from karen_o

This is recommended to those who are interested in even a general way about the issues surrounding the US-Mexico border. For people living in the area who feel that the subject matter may be a little too up-close-and-personal, I understand that, but the author did a very good job of getting throu...

from bezoar44

This book recounts a May 2001 disaster in which three guides led a group of at least 26 immigrants illegally across the Mexico-US border on a route called the Devil's Highway. A guide familiar with the route had stayed home; his partner asserted leadership of the group, got lost, and then made a ...

from whwatson

This book is well worth the read and the 4 star rating just for the insight, perspective, and better understanding of the complicated issues associated with illegal entry at the Mexican /US border. For those like myself who live outside the SW Sun Belt, I would suspect that the majority of us are...

from benuathanasia

I wish they'd picked a different reader for the audiobook. The "story" was wonderful and heartbreaking and infuriating and fascinating, but the narrator was SOOOO BAD. Stilted. Look Alberto, I get you wrote it and did all the research, but you CANNOT read aloud. Please don't try! It was like real...

from RealLifeReading

Living in California makes me miss the rain. A good thunderstorm, a tropical shower, that smell, that heaviness in the air that lets you know the rain is coming. It's drizzling here in Fremont today, and is expected to rain for the next couple of days, but it's a different sort of rain. It's the ...