Triple Crossing
A Novel
Published on 10. August 2011
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-316-10530-9 (ISBN)
Description
Valentine Pescatore, a volatile rookie Border Patrol agent, is trying to survive the trenches of The Line in San Diego. He gets in trouble and finds himself recruited as an informant by Isabel Puente, a beautiful U.S. 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 Pescatore into the lawless "triple border" region of South America and a showdown full of bloodshed and betrayal.Writing with rapid-fire intensity, Sebastian Rotella captures the despair and intrigue of the borderlands, where enforcing the law has become an act of subversion. TRIPLE CROSSING is an explosive and riveting debut.
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PRAISE FOR TWILIGHT ON THE LINE: "In Twilight on the Line Sebastian Rotella shows how the best journalism can be as entertaining and urgent as the best fiction. From assassins to underdog heroes, the wonderful atmosphere, gripping detail, and telling insight of this book make it an engrossing, fascinating read. Rotella is an A-list journalist with a storyteller's heart." "Sebastian Rotella's passionate reporting on the street kids of San Diego led me to write 'Balboa Park.' His Twilight On the Line makes clear just what's at stake on our nation's southern frontier." "An extraordinarily important and courageous book, by turns moving and harrowing, mesmerizing and saddening. It reads like a suspense novel, as we watch the institutions of social order break down under the impossible strains of gangsterism and governmental neglect. Twilight on the Line is a story of heroes, all of whom are in over their heads, and nearly all of whom are laid low, with the most important casualty being, finally, democracy itself." -- author of Batting Against CastroMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Little, Brown & Company
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-316-10530-9 (9780316105309)
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Sebastian Rotella 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.