The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto UrreaMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Devil's Highway (A True Story)
Written and Narrated By: Luis Alberto Urrea
Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
Release date: 06-02-11
Publisher: Hachette Audio
May, 2001, a group of 26 men attempted to cross the Mexican border in to the desert of Southern Arizona in order to find a better life for themselves. Only 12 made it out of that desert, the mummified remains of the others were discovered and the story began to unfold about this mystery.
Luis Alberto Urrea, puts the pieces together through some in depth investigative journalism and tells the story of those that sought a better way by sneaking into the U.S.
Urrea follows the story beginning with the Coyotes, those in charge of smuggling people to their new life and ending with the discovery and attempts to identify the remains of the humans seeking a better life by having to sneak across a vast desert.
During the descriptions of the the states the bodies were in and how they got to be that way on top of how the body reacts to extreme heat were a bit uneasy for me to hear, but not so bad that it kept me from the story. This is a very important section of the story and even if you are squeamish, you need to read/hear all of it.
Urrea not only did a great job of digging out and writing this story, but his narration really gives a depth to the story. Check it out.
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