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His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path toward destiny, he witnesses unknown horrors and suffering--and yet, as if shielded by the almighty hand of God, he survives to breathe another...

"A father reluctantly crosses the Mexican border to rescue his estranged son mixed up in the drug trade. It will take everything they have to make it back alive"--

Working to restart his career after being shot in the line of duty, former INS agent and private detective Brinker investigates the murder of a local businessman's wife and discovers a possible connection to a smuggling operation.

When Santa Cruz County deputy sheriff Jose Reyes, Ali Reynolds's classmate from the Arizona Police Academy, is gunned down and left to die, he is at first assumed to be an innocent victim of the drug wars escalating across the border. But the crime scene investigation shows there's more to it, and Reyes and his pregnant wife both fall under suspicion of wrongdoing. Ali owes Reyes a debt of gratitude and when she's summoned to his hospital bedside,...

This absorbing novel is a classic examination of people clinging to one of the world's most potent frontiers, the darkly promising, often treacherous intersectin of Mexico, California, and the Pacific Ocean.

Barnaby Skye, the earthy deserter from the Royal Navy who has carved out a career in the Rocky Mountains as a trapper, guide, and magnet for adventure, frits south to Mexican territory with his Crow Indian wife, Many Quills Woman.

"Powerful. . . impressive. . . [an] epic of the 1840s frontier." -Dallas Morning News With soaring and masterful prose, James Carlos Blake brings to life an enthralling historical time and place-and a cast of memorable characters-in a stunning tale of dark instinct, blood reckoning, and fates forged in the zeal of America's "Manifest Destiny." The offspring of a whore mother and a homicidal father, Edward and John Little are driven from their home...

From the author of the widely acclaimed The House on Mango Street comes a story collection of breathtaking range and authority, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.

Valentine Pescatore, a volatile rookie Border Patrol agent, is trying to survive rthe trenches at the Line in San Deigo. He gets in trouble and is recruited as an informant by Isabel Puente, a beautiful US agent investigating a powerful Mexican crime family. As he infiltrates the Mafia, Pescatore falls in love with Puente, but he clashes with her ally, Leo Mendez, chief of a Tijuana anti-corruption unit. Politically charged violence escalates, plunging...