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Автор: James Carlos Blake
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      By James Carlos Blake

      Novels The Ways of Wolfe The House of Wolfe The Rules of Wolfe Country of the Bad Wolfes The Killings of Stanley Ketchel Handsome Harry Under the Skin A World of Thieves Wildwood Boys Red Grass River In the Rogue Blood The Friends of Pancho Villa The Pistoleer

      Collection Borderlands

      Copyright © 2020 by James Carlos Blake

      Cover design by Cindy Hernandez

      Cover photographs: sun with palm trees © Delphotos/Alamy Stock Photo; hawk © Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH/Alamy Stock Photo

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       Published simultaneously in Canada

      First Grove Atlantic eBook edition: July 2020

      FIRST EDITION

      ISBN 978-0-8021-5688-4

      eISBN 978-0-8021-5696-9

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      To

       The Distler IV

      Joseph

      Nancy

      Emma

      Morgan

      Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state

      Mine never shall be parted, weal or woe.

      —John Milton, Paradise Lost

      Do what thy manhood bids thee do

      From none but self expect applause;

      He noblest lives and noblest dies

      Who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

      —Sir Richard Francis Burton

      Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see

      Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.

      —Alexander Pope, “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”

      Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.

      —James Salter, Light Years

      CONTENTS

       Jessie and Charlie

       II The Girl

       Catalina

       Catalina and Jessie and Charlie

       Rudy

       III The Crossings

       Rudy

       Rayo Luna

       Rudy

       El Chubasco

       Rudy

       El Chubasco

       Rudy

       El Chubasco

       Rudy

       El Chubasco

       Rudy

       THE SHIPMENT

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      The Gulf of Mexico on a moonless midsummer night. Star-clustered sky over placid black water. A frail and tepid offshore breeze. Eddie Gato Wolfe throttles back the engines as the boat closes in on a barrier island partitioning the Gulf from the southernmost reach of the Mexican Laguna Madre and the long stretch of uninhabited marshland beyond it. The vessel is an artfully customized trawler model fitted with a reinforced shallow-draft hull and powered by supercharged twin Hemis. Even with a full load it can fly, and empty of cargo it can outrun almost anything short of a speedboat. Its hull registration number belongs to a commercial fishing boat whose sinking eight years ago was never reported, and its registered owner is a man who perished in a Veracruz nightclub fire six years ago with fifty-two other victims, his remains never identified. The name Bruja and home port of La Pesca displayed on the transom are also falsehoods.

      Eddie’s