The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

by Óscar Martínez

Book Overview

An Economist and Financial Times "Best Book of the Year"

"Harrowing" true stories from two years of immersion reporting on the migrant trail from Chiapas to Arizona--an "honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier" (New York Times)

One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781682976
• ISBN13: 9781781682975
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"