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Ornela was only a hundred yards from the river when the coyote she had hired to take her across turned around and said, ” There’s going to be an additional charge…” And he had a gun in his hand.
Eric was about to make his first trip across the same river, with a team of cocaine smugglers. He wished like hell that he could just go back to his old job in Alaska, but if he tried to run a dozen of his relatives would die.
When he had gotten caught in bed with the drug lord’s woman he had expected a slow painful death. Now he was finding out that they weren’t going to let him off that easy.
I was born and raised in the Rocky Mountain region of the western United States, in a town of 12,000 people. I’ve tried living in more crowded places, such as Denver, or Atlanta, but after a year or two I always end up back in the high plains, where the antelope greatly outnumber the people. I’ve worked the usual assortment of jobs–cook, cowboy, roughneck, ambulance driver, but mainly I’ve been a land surveyor, specializing in remote areas of the west and also Alaska, where I’ve helped to build airstrips, pipelines, gold mines and power plants. I like land surveying in the bush because it’s outdoor work and there are few people and less noise.
For the last decade I’ve spent half of every year in Latin America. I was in Mexico when I decided to write a novel about drug smugglers on the Texas border and I knew I would also have to deal with the subject of illegal immigration. Everyone in Mexico knows someone who’s working without papers in the US. I was married to a Mexicana at the time and I talked to some of her cousins who’ve crossed the border wet-style more than once. I did a lot of research in books and online, I even rode with the Border Patrol, but in the end I knew I couldn’t write about it if I hadn’t done it so I crossed the river myself, alone. I survived and evaded the Patrullas Fronterizas. You can read an account of that trip on my blog, at edmundpickett.com/blog (Swimming the Rio Grande)
My second novel, about Islamic terrorists and the FBI agents who are chasing them, will be published in November 2012. After that I’ll return to the Rio Grande for Borderline Case #2, in which the cartels strike back.
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