A Murder on the Border

A Murder on the Border
Author: Billy Wittenberg
Publisher: Buffalo Bayou Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2022-12-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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A naive teen girl meets the perfect man. She dreams of a family of her own. What she finds is murder and a fight for her life. Maria is a teenager living in a catholic orphanage. She’s about to age out and is looking at an impoverished life on the streets of Nuevo Laredo. Victor seems the perfect match to spare her a life of hardship. He’s young and dashing and owns his own business. She falls in love in a whirlwind romance. Soon she’s pregnant with their child. But Victor is not the man she thinks he is. What follows is a desperate flight across the border to save herself and her unborn child. Victor becomes obsessed with finding his lost son. He tracks her movements, leaving death in his wake. When he finds her, she is forced to make a choice. Give up the only family she’s ever known? Or stand and fight? A Murder on the Border is the first novel in a thriller series that spans decades. If you like compelling characters, pulse-pounding suspense, and deadly twists of fate, you’ll love Billy Wittenberg’s debut novel. Pick up A Murder on the Border and start this new thriller series today!

Not One More!

Not One More!
Author: Nina Maria Lozano
Publisher: Rhetoric and Materiality
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2019
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780814255186

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Critiques and extends theories of new materialism to reveal the socioeconomic and geopolitical forces at work in the Juárez feminicidios.

A Murder on the Border

A Murder on the Border
Author: Billly Wittenberg
Publisher: Border Saga
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-12-04
Genre:
ISBN:

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A naive teen girl meets the perfect man. She dreams of a family of her own. What she finds is murder and a fight for her life. Maria is a teenager living in a catholic orphanage. She's about to age out and is looking at an impoverished life on the streets of Nuevo Laredo. Victor seems the perfect match to spare her a life of hardship. He's young and dashing and owns his own business. She falls in love in a whirlwind romance. Soon she's pregnant with their child. But Victor is not the man she thinks he is. What follows is a desperate flight across the border to save herself and her unborn child. Victor becomes obsessed with finding his lost son. He tracks her movements, leaving death in his wake. When he finds her, she is forced to make a choice. Give up the only family she's ever known? Or stand and fight? A Murder on the Border is the first novel in a thriller series that spans decades. If you like compelling characters, pulse-pounding suspense, and deadly twists of fate, you'll love Billy Wittenberg's debut novel. Pick up A Murder on the Border and start this new thriller series today!

Murder and Intrigue on the Mexican Border

Murder and Intrigue on the Mexican Border
Author: John A. Adams
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2018-06-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1623495857

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In early 1914, Clemente Vergara discovered several of his horses missing and reported the theft to local authorities. The Webb County sheriff arranged for the South Texas rancher to meet with Mexican soldiers near Hidalgo to discuss compensation for his loss. Vergara crossed the Rio Grande, soon succumbed to a vicious physical assault, and was jailed. Days after incarceration in Hidalgo, his body was found hanging from a tree. The murder of Clemente Vergara contributed to events that put the United States and Mexico on the brink of war and opened the door for expanded American involvement in Mexico. Texas governor Oscar B. Colquitt seized upon the incident to challenge President Woodrow Wilson—a fellow Democrat—to intervene and even threatened retaliation by the Texas Rangers. Meanwhile, the White House played a larger strategic game with competing factions in the midst of the Mexican Revolution. Wilson’s apparent inaction heightened Colquitt’s demands to guarantee the safety of Americans and their property in the Texas borderlands, and the Vergara affair’s extensive media coverage convinced many Americans that intervention in Mexico was necessary. Author John A. Adams Jr. shows how an otherwise commonplace horse theft and murder revealed a tangled web of international relations, powerful business interests, and intrigue on both sides of the border. Readers will be captivated by Murder and Intrigue on the Mexican Border and the continuing legacy that border events leave on Texas history.

North of the Border

North of the Border
Author: Judith Van Gieson
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2002
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780826328861

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On one side of the border, a murder; on the other, a killer. In between stands Neil Hamel, a woman with a passion for the truth. "Don't worry, Chiquita" was the Kid's answer to almost everything, and right now Neil Hamel missed the Kid--her part-time lover and car mechanic. Neil had gone to Mexico as a favor to a man she shouldn't be doing favors for, and what it got her was a face-to-face meeting with a corpse, a Mexican lawyer with a diamond pinky ring and a throat slit from ear to ear. Returning home to Albuquerque, Neil couldn't let go of the tangled scheme she had uncovered. Looking for the truth, she finds human predators. "Neil Hamel is the best thing to happen to criminal investigation since Father Brown. . . . Van Gieson is a classy writer."--Tony Hillerman

The Border

The Border
Author: Steve Schafer
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2017-09-05
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1492646849

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Perfect for readers of This Is Where it Ends, The Border is a gripping drama about four teens, forced to flee home after a deadly cartel rips apart their families. They must now face life-threatening danger and unimaginable sacrifice as they attempt to cross the U.S. border. "Thrilling... often brilliant."—Kirkus One moment changed their lives forever. A band plays, glasses clink, and four teens sneak into the Mexican desert, the hum of celebration receding behind them. Crack. Crack. Crack. Not fireworks—gunshots. The music stops. And Pato, Arbo, Marcos, and Gladys are powerless as the lives they once knew are taken from them. Then they are seen by the gunmen. They run. Except they have nowhere to go. The narcos responsible for their families' murders have put out a reward for the teens' capture. Staying in Mexico is certain death, but attempting to cross the border through an unforgiving desert may be as deadly as the secrets they are trying to escape...

The Border

The Border
Author: Don Winslow
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 931
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062664514

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ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED BOOKS OF THE YEAR Contains an excerpt from Don Winslow’s explosive new novel, City on Fire! NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Washington Post • NPR • Financial Times • The Guardian • Booklist • New Statesman • Daily Telegraph • Irish Times • Dallas Morning News • Sunday Times • New York Post "A big, sprawling, ultimately stunning crime tableau." – Janet Maslin, New York Times "You can't ask for more emotionally moving entertainment." – Stephen King "One of the best thriller writers on the planet." – Esquire The explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Force What do you do when there are no borders? When the lines you thought existed simply vanish? How do you plant your feet to make a stand when you no longer know what side you’re on? The war has come home. For over forty years, Art Keller has been on the front lines of America’s longest conflict: The War on Drugs. His obsession to defeat the world’s most powerful, wealthy, and lethal kingpin?the godfather of the Sinaloa Cartel, Adán Barrera?has left him bloody and scarred, cost him the people he loves, even taken a piece of his soul. Now Keller is elevated to the highest ranks of the DEA, only to find that in destroying one monster he has created thirty more that are wreaking even more chaos and suffering in his beloved Mexico. But not just there. Barrera’s final legacy is the heroin epidemic scourging America. Throwing himself into the gap to stem the deadly flow, Keller finds himself surrounded by enemies?men who want to kill him, politicians who want to destroy him, and worse, the unimaginable?an incoming administration that’s in bed with the very drug traffickers that Keller is trying to bring down. Art Keller is at war with not only the cartels, but with his own government. And the long fight has taught him more than he ever imagined. Now, he learns the final lesson?there are no borders. In a story that moves from deserts of Mexico to Wall Street, from the slums of Guatemala to the marbled corridors of Washington, D.C., Winslow follows a new generation of narcos, the cops who fight them, street traffickers, addicts, politicians, money-launderers, real-estate moguls, and mere children fleeing the violence for the chance of a life in a new country. A shattering tale of vengeance, violence, corruption and justice, this last novel in Don Winslow’s magnificent, award-winning, internationally bestselling trilogy is packed with unforgettable, drawn-from-the-headlines scenes. Shocking in its brutality, raw in its humanity, The Border is an unflinching portrait of modern America, a story of—and for—our time.

Betrayal on the Border

Betrayal on the Border
Author: Jill Elizabeth Nelson
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1460300041

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As the only survivors of a mysterious attack on the Texas-Mexico border, a journalist and a veteran team up to stay alive in this romantic suspense novel. Former army communications specialist Maddie Jameson doesn’t remember the details of her deadly mission on the Texas-Mexico border. But she knows she’s not responsible for the massive ambush that left only her and investigative journalist Chris Mason alive. Now Maddie and Chris both face suspicion and danger, not to mention a killer on their trail. Partnering up is the only solution. But as Maddie and Chris get closer to uncovering the truth, they’ll have to trust each other to make it through alive.

Sins of the Border

Sins of the Border
Author: Leslie Kohler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781440153990

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A former newspaper reporter turned suburban housewife, must dust off her press pass, when her best friend becomes the number one suspect in the murder of a local artist. The trail leads through the social echelons of Scottsdale to the fringes of a violent, vigilante border group.

The Daughters of Juarez

The Daughters of Juarez
Author: Teresa Rodriguez
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2007-03-27
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1416538895

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Despite the fact that Juarez is a Mexican border city just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, most Americans are unaware that for more than twelve years this city has been the center of an epidemic of horrific crimes against women and girls, consisting of kidnappings, rape, mutilation, and murder, with most of the victims conforming to a specific profile: young, slender, and poor, fueling the premise that the murders are not random. Indeed, there has been much speculation that the killer or killers are American citizens. While some leading members of the American media have reported on the situation, prompting the U.S. government to send in top criminal profilers from the FBI, little real information about this international atrocity has emerged. According to Amnesty International, as of 2006 more than 400 bodies have been recovered, with hundreds still missing. As for who is behind the murders themselves, the answer remains unknown, although many have argued that the killings have become a sort of blood sport, due to the lawlessness of the city itself. Among the theories being considered are illegal trafficking in human organs, ritualistic satanic sacrifices, copycat killers, and a conspiracy between members of the powerful Juárez drug cartel and some corrupt Mexican officials who have turned a blind eye to the felonies, all the while lining their pockets with money drenched in blood. Despite numerous arrests over the last ten years, the murders continue to occur, with the killers growing bolder, dumping bodies in the city itself rather than on the outskirts of town, as was initially the case, indicating a possible growing and most alarming alliance of silence and cover-up by Mexican politicians. The Daughters of Juárez promises to be the first eye-opening, authoritative nonfiction work of its kind to examine the brutal killings and draw attention to these atrocities on the border. The end result will shock readers and become required reading on the subject for years to come.