The dying season begins each spring along the 2,000 mile stretch of the United States/ Mexico border, but the term is not used in reference to the parched land or the animal carcasses that waste in the dry gulches and deep gullies littered with cans, bottles, clothing and syringes.
Instead it applies to human beings: poor, desperate people in search of a dream. In many cases, the dream turns into a deadly nightmare because of men like Maxwell Collin Ridgeway III, kingpin of the largest smuggling organization in the United States.
But despite the odds, they come by foot, across ...
The dying season begins each spring along the 2,000 mile stretch of the United States/ Mexico border, but the term is not used in reference to the parched land or the animal carcasses that waste in the dry gulches and deep gullies littered with cans, bottles, clothing and syringes.
Instead it applies to human beings: poor, desperate people in search of a dream. In many cases, the dream turns into a deadly nightmare because of men like Maxwell Collin Ridgeway III, kingpin of the largest smuggling organization in the United States.
But despite the odds, they come by foot, across treacherous mountains and desert wastelands. Those who don’t die from dehydration, starvation, hypothermia or drowning may wait for days, without food or water, in the “lay up” for the smugglers or coyotes to arrive. If they are lucky enough to get further, they are crammed into hot, airless trailers or overcrowded trucks and driven to isolated, dangerous locations, often left to their fate, after saving for years to pay their coyotes for their trip to nowhere.
Ridgeway is Coyote Smart, a fact that would be easy to miss by his humble beginnings as the son of an illegal immigrant. Turning against his own people, he is determined to be powerfully rich and inhumanly brutal, and he is successful at both —until he meets a young lawyer named Faith O’Brien England, who quickly realizes he is the most despicable, vile human being she has ever met. Their encounter may be brief, but what it brings, changes his life …and eventually hers.
Coyote Smart, although fiction, combines factual glimpses (through research and the perspective of a former border patrol agent) with literary prose and captivating dialogue, depicting not only the issues, but the raw emotions of those affected in the crossfire.
In reading this book, I realized that it is timely material and should be read by someone who can get this made into a movie now. As with Dr. Bradford's other books, it has a range of emotions. But, most of all, it is a story that is similar to the crisis we face today along the U.S. border. The author did a lot of research on these issues before beginning this book and this is very true to life although not a true story.
Product Details
BN ID: 2940012106346
Publisher: Cindy Bradford
Publication date: 12/2/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 356
File size: 249 KB
Meet the Author
Cindy Bradford is a retired public school educator and university professor, and holds a B.A. in journalism and English, a M.Ed. and a Ph.D. in educational administration/higher education. Prior to writing fiction, she wrote numerous professional articles that were published in various journals and educational periodicals. She lives at South Padre Island, Texas very close to the U.S./Mexico border and has seen firsthand the consequences of the conflict with drug and human smugglers.
Her hobbies include traveling, which she does extensively, gardening, and cooking. Tasting, drinking, collecting, and reading about different kinds of wine and the countries that produce them is a passion of the author. She often incorporates her knowledge of wine into her writings and shares the beautiful places she has visited, known for outstanding wines, with her readers. She has published two other novels.
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The dying season begins each spring along the 2,000 mile stretch of the United States/ Mexico border, but the term is not used in reference to the parched land or the animal carcasses that waste in the dry gulches and deep gullies littered with cans, bottles, clothing and syringes.Instead it applies to human beings: poor, desperate people in search of a dream. In many cases, the dream turns into a deadly nightmare because of men like Maxwell Collin Ridgeway III, kingpin of the largest smuggling organization in the United States.
But despite the odds, they come by foot, across ...