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Chargement... Do They Know I'm Running?par David Corbett
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Caught up in a scheme to smuggle his deported uncle back across the border, a young American must fight to save his family, himself, and the woman he loves At eighteen, Roque Montalvo is a gifted guitarist and a hit with women, but the rest of his life is a struggle. Orphaned at birth and scraping by in a rough Northern California town, he helps support his hardworking aunt and tends to his ex-marine brother--a physical and emotional wreck after his tour in Iraq. Then, to make matters worse, his uncle gets snared in a workplace raid and federal immigration agents deport him back to El Salvador. When Montalvo's loose-cannon cousin, himself a former deportee, shows up unannounced, he draws Montalvo into a scheme to rescue his uncle and bring him back home. It's a perilous undertaking in the best of cases, now that gangs and organized crime control the smuggling routes, and the risk ratchets higher when Montalvo learns he'll be transporting not just his uncle, but also a Palestinian refugee and a young beauty destined for the clutches of a fierce Mexican crime boss. A gritty, realistic, and unforgettable adventure where all borders are tested, Do They Know I'm Running? tightropes the perilous line between menace and hope, danger and home. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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This powerful and beautifully-crafted story rides the main character, Rogue, deep into the underbelly of a drug-smuggling mafia that is alive and well today in Mexico, Central America, and the U.S. Corbett sinks the reader into a world of corruption, violence, and terror, while weaving in expertly timed threads of love, loss, and longing, letting the reader surface and breathe. Allowing Rogue to understand, to grow, and move again.
The engine powering Do They Know I'm Running runs on high-octane fuel: family, honor, and love. The world Corbett creates demands impossible decisions -- from Rogue, his family, and ultimately the reader. His world is real, few get this close. While we can ignore the immigration and drug issues, and do, ignorance costs all of us.
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