La mordida
By: Jim Sanderson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Border patrols -- Fiction.; Smuggling -- Fiction.; Mexican American Border Region -- Fiction.; Texas -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Following El Camino del Rio (1998), this second in Sanderson's Dolph Martinez series finds the newly promoted border agent working with a special task force operating on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border. When Martinez finds that he may have been an unwitting pawn in a plot to eliminate a small-time crook, he starts digging and finds a corruption-soaked scam. Like its predecessor, this latest Martinez tale boasts an unusual protagonist (the likable Martinez is both cop and historian), sharp plotting, and a large cast of full-bodied characters. As a special treat for the author's fans, Jerri Johnson and Joe Parr, stars of Safe Delivery (2000), put in an appearance here; in fact, it's the PI Johnson and her former Texas Ranger husband who alert Martinez to the nasty goings-on in which he has unknowingly become involved.