Deep in trouble, deep in the canyons
Fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands has come all the way to the Big Bend on
the Texas-Mexico border to paddle the fabled Rio Grande with his cousin
Rio. As the boys are packing their raft and canoe for ten days in the
canyons, six Black Hawk helicopters appear overhead and race across the
river into Mexico. The Army warns them that a hurricane is approaching
the coast.
Convincing themselves that their chances of running into a storm are
slim, Dylan and Rio launch onto the wildest and most remote waters in
the Southwest. Downriver, a man appears with a seven-year-old boy,
begging for help . . . and the storm is upon them. Danger, suspense, and
the ever-looming troubles in Mexico drive this white-knuckle adventure
forward at a breakneck pace.