The Coyote’s Bicycle: The Untold Story of Seven Thousand Bicycles and the Rise of a Borderland Empire Audiobook (Free)

For readers of Jon Krakauer and Susan Orlean, The Coyote’s Bicycle brings alive a never-before-told phenomenon at our southern border, as well as the individual drama of those who cross.

It wasn’t surprising when the first abandoned bicycles were found along the dirt streets and farmland just across the border from Tijuana, but in a short time these were arriving in droves. The bicycles went from interest, to nuisance, to phenomenon. But until they caught the eye of journalist Kimball Taylor, only a little about The Coyote’s Bicycle: The Untold Story of Seven Thousand Bicycles as well as the Rise of the Borderland Empire cadre of human being smugglers—coyotes—and migrants could say how or why they’d received there. This is the story of 7,000 bikes that made an incredible trip and one son from Oaxaca who attained the boundary with nothing, constructed a small empire, and then vanished.

Taylor follows the trail of the border bikes through a few of society’s most effective institutions, and, by using an unlikely source, he reconstructs the rise of 1 of Tijuana’s state-of-the-art coyotes. Touching on immigration and globalization, aswell as the annals from the US/Mexico boundary, The Coyote’s Bike reaches once an immersive investigation of an outrageous incident and a true-crime, rags-to-riches story.