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The jaguar's children

Vaillant, John (John H.) (author).

Summary: Hector, a young Mexican in search of a new life pays to be smuggled across the U.S. Border sealed inside a water tanker packed with illegal migrants. With him is César, a biotech researcher for a large manufacturer of genetically modified corn, fleeing for his life. When the smugglers abandon the tanker, leaving them all to die in the baking desert, their only lifeline is César's phone. As legends fuse with the terrifying present, the dangers César is fleeing become grippingly apparent.

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  • ISBN: 9780307397171 (Vintage trade pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    278 pages ; 20 cm.
  • Edition: Vintage Canada edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : Vintage Canada, 2015.

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General Note:
New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.

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Subject: Illegal aliens -- Fiction
Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction
Survival -- Fiction
Human smuggling -- Fiction
Mexicans -- United States -- Fiction
Mexican-American Border Region -- Fiction
Arizona -- Fiction
Genre: Psychological fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Canadian fiction.

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  • 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Hazelton Public Library.

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