Book Review: City of Omens by Dan Werb
By Larry Clow
June 21, 2019For decades, American hungers sustained Tijuana. In this scientific detective story, a public health expert reveals what happens when a border city’s lifeline is brutally severed.
Mexican-American
Back to the Beginning: The Bounty Hunters by Elmore Leonard
By David Cranmer
December 20, 2014From the early 1970s until 1992’s Unforgiven, Westerns had become outmoded, pitiful television productions and lame B-films that had run the genre into the dust heap, and unless Clint Eastwood was starring in the saddle, no Western was getting noticed. I was still unabashedly hooked, even with the worst of the lot, and championed the…
Borderline by Lawrence Block
By Brian Greene
May 17, 2014Borderline by Lawrence Block is a hard-boiled thriller, originally published in 1962 and now available for the first time in 50 years, about the intertwining lives of a handful of people on the Mexican-American border as they encounter sex, drugs, and a serial killer (available May 20, 2014). Before cracking the first page of Borderline—which…
Fresh Meat: Border War by Lou Dobbs and James O. Born
By Dirk Robertson
May 1, 2014Border War by Lou Dobbs and James O. Born is the suspenseful thriller about the struggles of FBI Special Agent Tom Erikson after a questionable shootout on the Mexican border leads to his reassignment to an office known as “the Island of Misfit Cops” (available May 6, 2014). The action which kicks off with a…