After traveling to Tijuana, Mexico, Noemi and her mother are denied entry at the border and must find the refugee in charge of the notebook, an unofficial ledger of those waiting to cross into the United States. Includes author's note.

An American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student interact in an urban community on the U.S.-Mexico border where hundreds of young factory workers have disappeared. Cuatro academicos tras la pista de un enigmatico escritor aleman; un periodista de Nueva York en su primer trabajo en Mexico; un filosofo viudo; un detective de policia enamorado de una esquiva mujer estos son algunos de los personajes arrastrados hasta la ciudad...

"Violence and rumored rebellion had turned the border country into a powder keg primed to explode at any second. The mysterious "Liberator" called for war - and men who spoke against him died suddenly! Walt Slade, undercover ace of the Texas Rangers, rode into Matamoros, a one-man task force with the deadly job of stopping a revolution before it started. For Slade knew that "The Liberator" was none other than Veck Sosna, the most ruthless outlaw Texas...

"Bancroft Benson was a con man, glib enough to talk himself into half ownership of a ranch on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. Now that he was an established land owner, he was ready for the next time the Rio Grande changed its course and cut a more southerly path into Mexico. Since the river was his boundary, the change would give him more land as long as the Mexican landowner didn't decide to become an American and retain his claim on the banco....

Cormac McCarthy's award-winning and bestselling trio of novels, The Border Trilogy, appearing here in one volume for the first time, constitutes a genuine American epic. The young men in these novels come of age on southwestern ranches in the 1930s, while across the border Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where a dreams are paid for in blood

"Una historia de contrabando y traicion inspirada en el corrido de Los Tigres del Norte"-- Cover. En un principio, Camelia tolera los sufrimientos que conlleva su condición de inmigrante humilde en los Estados Unidos; sin embargo, a pesar de ser una chica noble y sencilla, constantemente se siente atraída por el lado salvaje de la vida, inclinación que no alcanza a comprender hasta que conoce al elegante seductor Emilio Varela. Juntos emprenden...

"Rogue Madden was a laughing man. He and his friends never seemed to take anything too seriously and could find laughter in most situations. After a wild poker party at his ranch house in Mexico, Rogue receives a telegram that a party of nine guests would be arriving that day and bringing the loveliest surprise. When the travelers arrive, there are plenty of surprises. First, they announce they have been robbed by bandits only a few miles from the...

John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.