Border Tales

120 degree heat in the San Luis summers. Wind chills in the single digits in the Nogales winters. Wild summer monsoons Pacific gales. Sonora Desert sand storms. No matter. The border never shuts down. 24 hours a day. 365 days a year. Officers of Customs and Border Protection--CBP--are on duty at the Arizona ports of entry.

Besides the weather and the tedium of the never ending streams of trucks and cars and pedestrians, there is the stark reality of what faces the border officers every single day. Drug smugglers, illegal entrants, wanted felons and a baker's dozen of sundry other miscreants. Every single border officer has to face it every single day. Mixed in with the ordinary commerce of the border is the criminal element continually trying to 'beat' the officers. Some times they do. Sometimes they don't.

This is the story of those who don't.

And of those who catch them.

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Border Tales

120 degree heat in the San Luis summers. Wind chills in the single digits in the Nogales winters. Wild summer monsoons Pacific gales. Sonora Desert sand storms. No matter. The border never shuts down. 24 hours a day. 365 days a year. Officers of Customs and Border Protection--CBP--are on duty at the Arizona ports of entry.

Besides the weather and the tedium of the never ending streams of trucks and cars and pedestrians, there is the stark reality of what faces the border officers every single day. Drug smugglers, illegal entrants, wanted felons and a baker's dozen of sundry other miscreants. Every single border officer has to face it every single day. Mixed in with the ordinary commerce of the border is the criminal element continually trying to 'beat' the officers. Some times they do. Sometimes they don't.

This is the story of those who don't.

And of those who catch them.

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Border Tales

Border Tales

by James Whitesell
Border Tales

Border Tales

by James Whitesell

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120 degree heat in the San Luis summers. Wind chills in the single digits in the Nogales winters. Wild summer monsoons Pacific gales. Sonora Desert sand storms. No matter. The border never shuts down. 24 hours a day. 365 days a year. Officers of Customs and Border Protection--CBP--are on duty at the Arizona ports of entry.

Besides the weather and the tedium of the never ending streams of trucks and cars and pedestrians, there is the stark reality of what faces the border officers every single day. Drug smugglers, illegal entrants, wanted felons and a baker's dozen of sundry other miscreants. Every single border officer has to face it every single day. Mixed in with the ordinary commerce of the border is the criminal element continually trying to 'beat' the officers. Some times they do. Sometimes they don't.

This is the story of those who don't.

And of those who catch them.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940044899612
Publisher: James Whitesell
Publication date: 08/28/2012
Sold by: Smashwords
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 147,588
File size: 925 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Ausgleich is author Jim Whitesell's seventh book. The first, Border Tales, is a non-fiction journalistic account of the working life of a U.S. border inspector on the Arizona/Sonora border. A book that melds Whitesell's two primary careers, journalist and border inspector. Jim's second book is a mystery/suspense book, The Storm, set in the Huachuca Mountains of southeastern Arizona during the Great Storm of 1983. Subsequently Jim wrote a series of four fictional very tongue-in-check books, the Elvis Chronicles, on the zany adventures and misadventures of a group of eccentric border inspectors lead by a direct descendant of the wild cattle stealing Gaels of Celtic Britain, Elvis Mahoney himself. This series of books is currently unavailable while under reconstructive surgery.
Though raised in Minnesota (which he calls 'The Big Tundra') Whitesell has long lived in the moderate climate of a mountain valley in southeast Arizona. Whenever he feels a tinge of Minnesota nostalgia he opens the freezer door in his refrigerator and sticks his head in it for a minute or two. That does it. So much for nostalgia. Whitesell loves Arizona.
He, however, is none too fond of rattlesnakes.
Jim has more books in gestation.

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