Triple Crossing

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The customary disclaimer is correct: The characters and events herein are fictitious. Any similarities to anyone are coincidental. Et cetera.

Nonetheless, I am also a journalist. I have spent a long time covering Latin America and the borderlands. So for the benefit of those who know the turf, and also for those who are discovering it, I want to set the right tone.

This book is inspired by reality. But a novel gives you the liberty to change and blend, mix and match. Many details of the subcultures of policing and smuggling, of the topography and sociology of the borderlands, are grounded in the present. Others grow out of a past reality that has since evolved. And some aspects are purely “fictional.”

I hope the result fulfills the mission of a novel as described by the wise Mario Vargas Llosa: “to express a curious truth that can only be expressed in a concealed way, disguised as something it is not.”

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