Train to Nowhere; Inside an Immigrant Death Investigation (Denison)

The non-fiction book, “Train to Nowhere; Inside an Immigrant Death Investigation,” was released in summer 2011.

Book description: Eleven undocumented immigrants are locked inside a baking railcar by smugglers and left to die a horrific death when no one comes to release them as promised. The railcar rolls on to the farming community of Denison, Iowa, where newspaper and television reporters descend after the bodies are discovered, all seeking the story behind the deaths. Train to Nowhere, part crime story and part immigration perspective, is an intimate portrait of those connected to the 2002 railcar deaths of eleven Central Americans and Mexicans. This piece of investigative reporting provides the full story, focusing largely on one victim’s New York brother, a longtime immigration agent assigned to the subsequent criminal investigation, and a train conductor imprisoned for working with the smugglers. It breaks away from the standard immigration story in fully examining this wide range of viewpoints. Train to Nowhere is an amazing piece of investigative reporting that examines tough facets of the immigration problem the United States faces today and in doing so, examines the very heart of human nature itself.

Written by Colleen Bradford Krantz and published by Ice Cube Press, it is available on Amazon.com or at www.IceCubePress.com. It is also carried by Ingram, as well as Baker & Taylor. She also wrote and co-produced a 2010 public television documentary of the same name.

Reviews and articles:

Minneapolis Star-Tribune - http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/124438539.html

Des Moines Register - http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20101001/NEWS03/10010346/Munson-Adel-writer-refuses-give-up-11-victims

Seattle Post Intelligencer - http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Book-Review-Train-to-Nowhere-Inside-an-2167660.php