A new anthology
coming this November,
from Betimes Books:
Welcome to La Frontera: You're headed way out west this time intrepid reader, far past where you've dared go before.
Your troubled guides along these
dusty, bloody stretches of The Devil’s Highway are much-awarded crime novelists,
journalists and border-dwelling troubadours. They serve up stories and essays about
lives threatened chasing the elusive, often deadly dream of more money and
better futures beckoning north and south of the border.
Emiliano Zapata declared, “It’s better to die on your feet than to
live on your knees.” In that spirit, these bards of the borderland are swinging
for the barbed-wire fences: all swagger and dark visions, hell-bent on sweeping
you along with them across the Rio Grande to a broken Promised Land.
Like treacherous Coyotes, they may gut-shoot you or break your heart in the crossing, but however it goes down, know these hombres are determined to make you feel it.
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