Coyotes

A Journey Across Borders with America's Illegal Migrants

By Ted Conover
(Vintage, Paperback, 9780394755182, 288pp.)

Publication Date: August 12, 1987

Categories: Ethnic Studies - General, Labor & Industrial Relations - General, Emigration & Immigration

"Ted Conover lived the bizarre life of the Mexican illegals. Theirs is a subterrestrial world of high-wire tensions, of brutal police, of sinister smugglers -- coyotes. A devastating document, this one must be read." -- Leon Uris

The acclaimed author of Rolling Nowhere has taken another adventure, this time on the underground railway that operates across America's southern border. To discover what becomes of Mexicans who desperately slip into the United States, Ted Conover disguised himself as an illegal alien, walked across deserts, hid in orange orchards, waded through the Rio Grande, and cut life-threatening deals with tough-guy traffickers in human sweat. This electrifying account is the harrowing vision of a way of life no outsider has ever seen before.