Tijuana Straits: A Novel by Kem Nunn

Author:Kem Nunn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Action & Adventure, General, Literary, Suspense, Thrillers, Fiction
ISBN: 9780743279826
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2005-10-04T04:00:00+00:00

They made plans to cross on the evening of the following day. Near sunset they wandered the streets of El Norte and the old red-light district, within sight of the fence. As shadows grew so did the number of peasants hoping to escape the gravitational pull of the great land mass from which they had come, hoping to survive the crack addicts and thugs of Colonia Subterráneo, to outrun the border patrol, hoping to survive whatever assortment of bandidos, gang-bangers, and vigilantes the night might array against them, for the number of their enemies was legion. And so you would see them, scarecrows with frightened eyes loitering in the shadows of the fence, along the cement walls of the flood control channel, at the bottom of every gully, clear to Las Playas, where they huddled amid the reek of excrement in the shadow of the bullring at the edge of the old people’s park, fingering rosaries and counting out their luck.

Armando might have pitied them, but somehow their vulnerability invited only his contempt, that and a certain satisfaction that in spite of everything that had befallen him, or perhaps because of it, he and his compadres could sit by, nonchalant, drinking beers among the strippers till the time had come for them head out to Las Playas and their chosen route of passage, where they would cross at their leisure.

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