New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this award winning journalist - a thriller set on our southern border with Mexico, one which takes us into the world of border politics and drugs. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Luis Alberto Urrea, Jim Shepard and Michael Connelly (who called this one of the most accomplished first novels he has read). 397 pp. ISBN: 9780316105309.