A powerful and timely thriller about migrants, drug lords, and gang warfare, set on the US/Mexico border, from Marcus Sedgwick, winner of the MEDAL PRINTZ and nominee for the COSTA BOOK AWARD and GUARDIAN CHILDREN'S FICTION PRIZE. In Anapra, one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Mexican city of Juarez, just twenty meters outside the city there's a fence, and behind it, America - the dangerous target for many migrants. Faustino is trying to escape from the gang he worked for. He has stolen a sum of money he was supposed to hide, and now he is on the run. He and his friend, Arturo, have only 36 hours to return the missing money, or they are doomed. Among them is Santa Muerte. Santa Muerte (or Santisima Muerte) - the one made of pure bone and with black eyes, the one representing absolute devotion and neutral morality, saintly protector of rich and poor, prostitutes and drug lords, criminals and police chiefs. A folk saint, a revolutionary angel, a menacing guardian.