Border Crosser

Border Crosser
Author :
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Total Pages : 289
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780345515223
ISBN-13 : 0345515226
Rating : 4/5 (226 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Border Crosser by : Johnny Rico

Download or read book Border Crosser written by Johnny Rico and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny Rico is back. After risking his life as an Afghanistan stop-loss soldier, an experience he described in the cult phenomenon Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green, he now dares to embed himself on both sides of America’s most dangerous domestic conflict–the war for and against illegal immigration–in an exhilarating new exercise in immersion journalism. The gonzo author–part Hunter Thompson, part George Plimpton–explores a seemingly insoluble issue by getting his hands dirty and his boots on the ground. As a “typically spoiled American” who doesn’t speak a lick of Spanish, he takes it upon himself to try to cross the Mexican border into the United States illegally. Eager to tell the story from all sides–or simply to get good material for his book–Rico also travels treacherously with the Border Patrol, meets extreme immigrant advocates who publish maps for illegals, visits a modern-day “underground railroad” in Texas, and hunts for miscreants with angry vigilantes. In such hot spots as the Tecate Line, a forty-five-mile stretch of hills on California’s southern fringe, and Arizona’s Amnesty Trail, the single busiest part of the U.S. border, Rico encounters Los Zetas, the paramilitatry group that has taken over Mexico’s drug cartels, interviews the volunteer Minutemen, who believe in an imminent and apocalyptic Mexican invasion, and tries to recruit coyotes (human smugglers, usually fortified by meth and cocaine). In his heedless and openly opportunistic style, Rico unearths more truths about this explosive subject than most traditional reporters could ever hope to. Border Crosser is another knockout from this new-generation journalist, at once a concerned citizen, courageous spy, and unparalleled author.


Border Crosser Related Books

Border Crosser
Language: en
Pages: 289
Authors: Johnny Rico
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-23 - Publisher: Ballantine Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Johnny Rico is back. After risking his life as an Afghanistan stop-loss soldier, an experience he described in the cult phenomenon Blood Makes the Grass Grow Gr
Crossing the Border
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Sharon A. Roger Hepburn
Categories: African Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In 1849, the Reverend William King and fifteen of his former slaves founded the Canadian settlement of Buxton on a 9,000-acre block of land in Ontario set aside
Border Crossing
Language: en
Pages: 227
Authors: Pat Barker
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-01 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Set in the north of England, Pat Barker's Border Crossing, the basis for the major motion picture The Drowning, portrays a child psychiatrist who rescues a man
Border-crosser with a Lamborghini Dream
Language: en
Pages: 110
Authors: Juan Felipe Herrera
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From one of the prominent Chicano poets writing today comes a collection of poems to take your breath away. With dazzling speed and energy, Juan Felipe Herrera
Border Crosser
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Tom Doyle
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK