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TRIPLE CROSSING
This is a gritty, fast-paced thriller about the criminal underworld at work along both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and a young cop who goes undercover to bring it down.
Valentine Pescatore is a loner with a rough past who's trying to bring some decency to his job as a U.S. Border Patrol agent. While his boss plays sadistic games with the illegals he catches, Pescatore slips them money before turning them back. But when Pescatore chases a smuggler into Tijuana, he breaks the ultimate Patrol commandment: never cross The Line.
To escape prosecution, Pescatore must become an informant for the Justice Department and infiltrate one of Mexico's most powerful and ruthless crime families. Pescatore begins to walk an ever thinner line between investigating a major crime organization and becoming part of it, and he gets on the wrong side of hardbitten Mexican lawman Leo Mendez. Mendez chases his quarry all the way to South America and the deadly "triple border," a no-man's-land where bloody confrontation is all but inevitable.
Writing with rapid-fire intensity, Sebastian Rotella captures the violence and desperation of a place where fortunes are made and dreams go to die. Triple Crossing is the introduction of a rich and muscular new voice to crime fiction.
Sebastian Rotella knows of what he writes! He is an author and award-winning senior reporter for Propublica, an independent organization dedicated to investigative journalism. He covers issues including international terrorism, organized crime, homeland security and immigration. Previously, he worked for 23 years for the Los Angeles Times, serving as bureau chief in Paris and Buenos Aires and covering the Mexican border. He was a Pulitzer finalist in international reporting in 2006. He is the author of Twilight on the Line: Underworlds and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Norton), which was named a New York Times Notable Book in 1998. Fans of the movie Traffic and the TV Series The Wire are going to love this one!
To escape prosecution, Pescatore must become an informant for the Justice Department and infiltrate one of Mexico's most powerful and ruthless crime families. Pescatore begins to walk an ever thinner line between investigating a major crime organization and becoming part of it, and he gets on the wrong side of hardbitten Mexican lawman Leo Mendez. Mendez chases his quarry all the way to South America and the deadly "triple border," a no-man's-land where bloody confrontation is all but inevitable.
Writing with rapid-fire intensity, Sebastian Rotella captures the violence and desperation of a place where fortunes are made and dreams go to die. Triple Crossing is the introduction of a rich and muscular new voice to crime fiction.
Sebastian Rotella knows of what he writes! He is an author and award-winning senior reporter for Propublica, an independent organization dedicated to investigative journalism. He covers issues including international terrorism, organized crime, homeland security and immigration. Previously, he worked for 23 years for the Los Angeles Times, serving as bureau chief in Paris and Buenos Aires and covering the Mexican border. He was a Pulitzer finalist in international reporting in 2006. He is the author of Twilight on the Line: Underworlds and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border (Norton), which was named a New York Times Notable Book in 1998. Fans of the movie Traffic and the TV Series The Wire are going to love this one!
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Published 2011-08-01 by Mulholland Books |