Triple Crossing, (Paperback)

from maneekuhi

Triple Crossing is about Mexico, drugs, corrupt police, and the initial focus is The Line between San Diego and Tijuana. Valentin is a young Border Patrol agent whose boss, Garrison, appears to be very dirty. One night Valentin chases after a criminal into Mexico, crossing The Line, and putting t...

from MarkPSadler

As a journalist, Rotella tells it the way it is, straight talk, all facts about life south of the border. A Pulitzer finalist, he found many stories he could never fully substantiate, tales all fascinating but unprintable for a newspaper. Taking all these fables, gossip, innuendo, and rumors, he ...

from MarkPSadler

As a journalist, Rotella tells it the way it is, straight talk, all facts about life south of the border. A Pulitzer finalist, he found many stories he could never fully substantiate, tales all fascinating but unprintable for a newspaper. Taking all these fables, gossip, innuendo, and rumors, he ...

from etsmith

A bracing and well-written novel with the international drug trade and police corruption as a backdrop. Rotella is an LA Times reporter who has covered this territory in nonfiction. The writing is outstanding, the plot exciting and the scene settings realistic. Sometimes it takes a novel to tell ...

from AnnieMod

A very slow start - to the point where I spend probably a week reading the first 100 pages (or so). And then finished it in one night. Once the story picks up, it actually works quite well. I usually do not have issues with slow starts - I am patient enough in my reading. But I need to see the bu...