Border towns stand like carnival funhouse mirrors, reflecting greed, evil, and death in both directions. Not many American writers have looked as deeply into those mirrors as Kent Harrington. DEA Agent Vincent Calhoun's luck, his suerte, has been golden. He and his crooked judicale partner are getting rich coyoteing wealthy crooks and refugees into the U.S. from their posts in Tijuana. Then, on the Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos, a girl gets off a bus, and Calhoun's luck heads south with a vengeance. A rolling ...
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Border towns stand like carnival funhouse mirrors, reflecting greed, evil, and death in both directions. Not many American writers have looked as deeply into those mirrors as Kent Harrington. DEA Agent Vincent Calhoun's luck, his suerte, has been golden. He and his crooked judicale partner are getting rich coyoteing wealthy crooks and refugees into the U.S. from their posts in Tijuana. Then, on the Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos, a girl gets off a bus, and Calhoun's luck heads south with a vengeance. A rolling nightmare of gambling debts, kinky sex, dengue fever, hot lead, and past sins catches up to Vincent Calhoun in a brutal punch-in-the-mouth story set in a moral no-man's land.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Signed by Author on half title page. The binding is Clean and tight with minor shelf wear. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
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Dust jacket in good condition. First edition. SIGNED by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the dust jacket. Light bowing to the boards. Tight binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 6x1x9; Hardcover with dust jacket. Stated First Edition. 1st printing (no later printings indicated). Clean and tight. No markings. Ships in a box. Ships from NYC.
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Musgrove, Scott. Fine in Fine jacket. Book. Signed by Author First edition, December 1997, so stayted with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine, unread copy in dust jacket. not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. SIGNED COPY. Signed by author Kent Harrington directly on the half-title page. Dust jacket and interior art work by Scott Musgrove. The publisher calls this ". a book that is as close to the "essential" noir novel as I've ever read." Calhoun is an American drug agent working in Tijuana, indulging in the excesses and corruption of that Mexican border town. He supplements his income-and tries to to cover his losses at the dog track-by smuggling illegal aliens across the border into California. His partner of choice is a Mexican federal cop. His partner of necessity is a well-bred, young, violent British fixer. The pressure on Calhoun mounts as he's "hired" to mule a group of Chinese girls across the border; unknown to him the girls have ingested balloons of heroin. He reunites with an American girl who started his downward spiral in California, pledging to get her back across the border along with a Chilean family and a 500 lb. Mexican crime lord. Everything comes to a head on Mexico's Dia de los Muertes-the Day of the Dead.
