.ERIC thought he had gotten lucky. She was gorgeous and she acted single. It wasn't until 5 am, when the guys with guns broke into his hotel room, that he found out she was the girlfriend of a drug lord. They were going to kill him slowly until they found out what he did for a living. Then they decided he could work for them. A land surveyor should be able to guide cocaine smugglers across the border, right? ORNELA couldn't find work in Mexico. Friends told her that in the US a nanny makes more than a doctor does in the south, so she decided to risk everything. She was only a hundred yards from the river when the coyote she had hired to take her to the US turned around and said, "There's going to be an additional charge..." And he had a gun in his hand.EL RIO GRANDE A thin green band through the desert, one hundred yards of muddy water separating the third world from gringo land. Deserted and peaceful during daytime, at night a lawless highway for drug smugglers, people smugglers, paperless poor people, the thieves and rapists who prey on the poor people and the US Border Patrol.
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