The Devil's Highway: A True Story
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story

Luis Alberto Urrea
4.11
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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.
Genres: NonfictionHistoryPoliticsAudiobookTrue CrimeSocial JusticeBook ClubJournalismLatinxCrime
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