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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780743279826 ISBN: 0743279824 Label: Scribner Manufacturer: Scribner Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: October 04, 2005 Publisher: Scribner Studio: Scribner Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: From National Book Award-nominated Kem Nunn comes an exquisitely written tale of loss and redemption along California's untamed borderland, confirming his reputation as a master of suspense and a novelist of the first rank. When Fahey, once a great surfer, now a reclusive ex-con, meets Magdalena, she is running from a pack of wild dogs along the ragged wasteland where California and Mexico meet the Pacific Ocean -- a spot once known to the men who rode its giant waves as the Tijuana Straits. Magdalena has barely survived an attack on her life and Fahey, against his every instinct, takes her in. An environmental activist, Magdalena is engaged in the struggle for the rights of the thousands of peasants streaming from Mexico's impoverished heartland to work in the maquilladoras -- the foreign-owned factories that line her country's border, polluting its air and fouling its rivers. She is passionate about her work, and perhaps has taken too many risks with her own safety. As Magdalena attempts to reconstruct the events that delivered her, battered and confused, into Fahey's strange yet oddly seductive world, she examines every lead, never guessing the truth about the man who has marked her for death. Armando Santoya, beset by personal tragedy, an aberration born of the very conditions Magdalena has dedicated her life to fight against, is leading a trio of killers on a drug-fueled mission to end her life -- and that of Fahey, her new protector, confidant, and friend -- in a final duel on the beaches of the Tijuana Straits. Average Rating:
 Rating: - tijuana straightsI'm not finished yet but so far it has been a good book. A little different as far as writing style but easy to get in to. Rating:  - Worst book I have ever read hands downThis book is so bad I tore out every page and threw it away in the trash as I read it. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! DO ... Read More Rating: - Another Good Yarn from NunnI enjoyed Dogs of Winter and sent out for another one. Tijuana Straits did not let me down. Recommended book for those road trips. Rating: - Tijuana StraitsNot as good as tapping the source but another great surfing novel from Kem Nunn. Rating: - It's books like this....It's books like this that make you wish you never learned to read. The lack of an exciting plot was matched by the pathetic character development. 
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