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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Ali Reynolds's friend and fellow police officer Jose Reyes is shot down and left for dead. At first, officers suspect that he was caught in the crossfire in the local drug wars, but evidence starts to suggest that he may have been working with the criminals. As Ali investigates the case, she finds an unlikely ally in Sister Anselm, a patient advocate who works with border crosses. Together, the two work to fight the local drug cartels and discover...
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Ed Eagle novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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Ed Eagle, the six-feet-six, take-no-prisoners Santa Fe attorney, has recovered from his encounters with Mexican organized crime and--more treacherously--his ex-wife, Barbara. Now a mysterious new client has come his way, one who may shed light into some dark corners of Ed's past ... and put him in danger once more.
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Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while cracks are beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, reasonably comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse...
5) Taken
Author
Series
Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 15
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Hired along with Joe Pike to investigate the allegedly kidnapped missing daughter of a woman, Elvis Cole goes undercover to infiltrate a ring of professional border kidnappers only to be abducted himself.
Author
Series
Caitlin Strong novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A Mexican girl on the run from human traffickers brings fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong to the sleepy border town where her legendary grandfather once worked, a region that hides a deadly weapon with a potential to give a new enemy the means to terrorize the United States.
7) Crossers
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In a tale inspired by the brutality and beauty of life on the Arizona-Mexico border, September 11 widower Gil Castle finds his efforts to heal challenged by dark truths about his fearsome grandfather and retaliations against an act of kindness.
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English
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25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West-from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
Description
J.D. Jessup, having left his painful past and music for a job on a Tucson, Arizona, organic farm, unknowingly unleashes a chain of deadly events after he decides to hide a beautiful illegal alien, who was on the verge of death, instead of calling Border Patrol.
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Series
Lena Jones mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Scouting locations for a film documentary, private detective Lena Jones and director Warren Quinn stumble upon the mutilated body of a young girl, a killing tied to the secretive town of Los Perdidos and a series of brutal crimes against immigrant women.
12) The territory
Author
Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"At the end of State Road 170 and just past a ghost town lies Artemis, population 2,500. The townspeople had sought out this remote corner of Western Texas in hopes of living lives of solitude and independence. None of them realized that their small town would become a hot spot for Mexican drug runners, whose turf battles have turned both sides of the Rio Grande into a war zone. Still, many of the locals would rather take the law into their own hands...
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English
Description
For years, ex-Navy SEAL Maxwell Moore has worked across the Middle East and behind the scenes for the Special Activities Division of the CIA, making connections, extracting valuable intelligence, and facing off against America's enemies at every turn. When Moore arrives at a rendezvous to take charge of a high-ranking Taliban captive, the meeting takes a horrific turn.
Author
Series
Josie Gray mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"It was pure luck that Josie Gray spotted Cassidy Harper's car, abandoned on the side of the road. If she hadn't, then she'd never have found Cassidy, lying nearly dead of heatstroke on the desert sand beside the body of a Mexican immigrant. But Cassidy can't explain why she was out for a walk in the midday desert heat, let alone how she happened upon the corpse. And once Josie sees the ominous wounds on the man's body, she knows she needs to find...
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