Ted Conover is the author of several books, including Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America’s Hoboes, and The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, and National Geographic. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is distinguished writer-in-residence in the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. He lives in New York City.
"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.
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