{"product_id":"9781781682975","title":"The Beast : Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail by John Washington","description":"NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist \u0026amp; The Financial TimesOne  day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote  desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local priest got  120 released, many with broken ankles and other marks of abuse, but the  rest vanished. Oscar Mart?nez, a young writer from El Salvador, was in  Altar soon after the abduction, and his account of the migrant  disappearances is only one of the harrowing stories he garnered from two  years spent traveling up and down the migrant trail from Central  America and across the US border. More than a quarter of a million  Central Americans make this increasingly dangerous journey each year,  and each year as many as 20,000 of them are kidnapped.   Mart?nez  writes in powerful, unforgettable prose about clinging to the tops of  freight trains; finding respite, work and hardship in shelters and  brothels; and riding shotgun with the border patrol. Illustrated with  stunning full-color photographs, The Beast is the first book to shed light on the harsh new reality of the migrant trail in the age of the narcotraficantes.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304037462389,"sku":"9781781682975","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781781682975.jpg?v=1762795391","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781781682975","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}