Author Description

In compelling prose and on-the-ground reporting, Corbett brings to gritty life the human face of the profitable and dirty business of smuggling human cargo illegally across the U.S. borders. Corbett takes the reader on a harrowing journey from the small towns of Central America and Mexico, to the traffickers of illegal immigrants, to the immigrants themselves, deperate in their attempts to cross into the U.S. at any cost. Cargo exposes the blackmarket business in the global trafficking of human beings, many of whom end up as indentured workers and in the sex rings in this country and elswhere, and some of whom die in brutal conditions as their desperate attempts to cross into the United States.