Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands
“The Marauders is a blistering book, a hard-ass stare into the voracious mouth of the US-Mexico border. Patrick Strickland has done a fine piece of reporting from places we don’t dare to tread.” — Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Hummingbird’s Daughter
“Revealing and worthy reading for anyone with an interest in border and immigration issues.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Courageous, crucial reporting on the paranoid fantasies and brutal violence of the nativist far right, through the eyes of its victims.” — Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood
“Strickland crosses the desert of simplistic, hopeless border narratives and finds an oasis: communities resistant to the disease of militant right-wing extremism ravaging the country. An important antidote to the cartoonish border stories that make ‘news.’” — Roberto Lovato, author of Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas
“This vivid, character-driven report spotlights one Arizona town’s efforts to fight back against ‘a flood of extremely dangerous, virulently racist, and heavily armed outsiders’ who have flocked to the US border with Mexico in recent years . . . A fascinating and often harrowing portrait of a community in the crosshairs.” — Publishers Weekly
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