
A potent powerful & timely thriller about migrants drug lords & gang warfare set on the USMexican border by PRINTZ MEDAL winning & CARNEGIE MEDAL COSTA BOOK AWARD & GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE shortlisted novelist Marcus Sedgwick Anapra is one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Mexican city of Juarez
- twenty metres outside town lies a fence & beyond it America
- the dangerous goal of many a migrant Faustino is one such trying to escape from the gang he's been working for He's dipped into a pile of dollars he was supposed to be hiding & now he's on the run He & his friend Arturo have only 36 hours to replace the missing money or they're as good as dead Watching over them is Saint Death Saint Death (or Santissima Muerte)
- she of pure bone & charcoal-black eye she of absolute loyalty & neutral morality holy patron to rich & poor to prostitute & narco-lord criminal & police-chief A folk saint a rebel angel a sinister guardian