Skip to content

Beyond the barricade

by Deborah Ellis

Cover of Beyond the barricade
Popularity 2

A sequel to I am a taxi (also published as The Prison Runner). Diego is lost and far from home. He is taken in by a poor family who grow coca crops for survival. After the army burns their crop a demonstation for justice turns deadly Diego must decide to stay and fight or leave in the hope of finally making it home.

Cocaine industryJuvenile fictionProtest movementsSocial conditionsCoca industryFiction