Bandit Roads by Richard Grant
'A sizzling, white-knuckle read' Daily Mail 'A raw, colourful tour through the Sierra Madre... Grant is a cracking writer' Financial Times 'Read this brilliant book and be grateful he survived to tell the tale' Maxim 'A gripping account of Grant's journey into the badlands of northern Mexico' Sunday Times Travel There are many ways to die in the Sierra Madre, a notorious nine-hundred-mile mountain range in northern Mexico where AK-47s are fetish objects, the law is almost non-existent and power lies in the hands of brutal drug mafias. Richard Grant thought it would be a good idea to travel the length of the Sierra Madre and write a book about it. He was warned before he left that he would be killed. But driven by what he calls 'an unfortunate fascination' for this mysterious region, Grant sets off anyway. In a remarkable piece of investigative writing, he evokes a sinister, surreal landscape of hostile villages and an outlaw culture where homicide is the most common cause of death and grandmothers sell cocaine.
Erudite & street-smart.. that rare thing: a travel writer who not only amuses & informs but also reappraises a well trodden landscape with brio & originality * MAIL ON SUNDAY *
[Grant] brings to light a range of darkly romantic wanderers who strayed from the American mainstream while exemplifying the American Dream * OBSERVER *
....the freshest travel book on the US in a long time & one of the best short entrees to its history & culture * TLS *
His yarn rips along to a staccato sound-track of gunfire and inventive obscenities from some of the most unrighteous examples of humanity alive' Peter Carty, INDEPENDENT * 'A raw, colourful tour through the Sierra Madre . . . he is a cracking travel writer, and his book brims with revealing conversations, escapades and history’ *
[Grant] brings to light a range of darkly romantic wanderers who strayed from the American mainstream while exemplifying the American Dream * OBSERVER *
....the freshest travel book on the US in a long time & one of the best short entrees to its history & culture * TLS *
His yarn rips along to a staccato sound-track of gunfire and inventive obscenities from some of the most unrighteous examples of humanity alive' Peter Carty, INDEPENDENT * 'A raw, colourful tour through the Sierra Madre . . . he is a cracking travel writer, and his book brims with revealing conversations, escapades and history’ *
Richard Grant has written extensively for the Telegraph Magazine, Guardian, Esquire and numerous other publications. He is the author of Ghost Riders, which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and Bandit Roads. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780349118345 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349118345 |
| Title | Bandit Roads |
| Author | Richard Grant |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2009-06-04 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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