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Border Patrol: When seventeen-year-old Mark Malloy helps his older brother Josh become a contestant on a controversial new reality show called Border Patrol, he has no idea that something is about to go horribly wrong. During the taping of the program, Josh vanishes without a trace, and a month passes without a single lead to his whereabouts.
Filled with feelings of guilt, Mark travels by himself from Chicago to the border town of Nogales, Mexico, determined to find his brother and bring him home. There, he is immediately plunged into a dangerous and violent world of human smugglers, drug traffickers, thieves, and killers.
On his first day in town, Mark is brutally attacked by a vicious gang of thugs and left naked and badly injured in the harsh Sonoran Desert. Dehydrated and close to death, Mark is found by Conejito, a local boy close to his age who has made his home in the desert after his family perishes during an unsuccessful border crossing. Conejito nurses Mark back to health and agrees to help him solve the mystery of what happened to his brother.
Together, the teens begin the dangerous task of tracking down Josh’s abductors. Their search takes them through the streets of Nogales, into the hellish tunnels under the city, and out to the remotest parts of the desert, where they come face-to-face with the region’s most feared and ruthless smuggler, El Chamuco. With Conejito’s assistance, Mark launches a daring plan to defeat the coyote and rescue his brother.
Along the way, Mark experiences firsthand the dangers facing immigrants in Mexico today and the extraordinary risks they take to have a better life in the United States.
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