Crossers (53 page)

Authors: Philip Caputo

Tags: #Suspense, #Crime, #Fiction, #Literary, #Historical, #Suspense Fiction, #Sagas, #Action & Adventure, #Fiction - General, #Historical - General, #Widowers, #Drug Traffic, #Family secrets, #American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +, #Widows, #Grief, #Arizona, #Mexican-American Border Region, #Ranches, #Caputo, #Philip - Prose & Criticism

A Note About the Author

Philip Caputo worked for nine years for the
Chicago Tribune
and shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his reporting on election fraud in Chicago. He is the author of seven other works of fiction, four works of nonfiction, and two memoirs, including
A Rumor of War
, about his service in Vietnam. He divides his time between Connecticut and Arizona.

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2009 by Philip Caputo
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random
House of Canada, Limited, Toronto.
www.aaknopf.com

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of
Random House, Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Roger Clyne for permission
to reprint an excerpt from “Switchblade” by Roger Clyne.
Reprinted by permission of Roger Clyne.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Caputo, Philip.
Crossers : a novel / by Philip Caputo. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
“This is a Borzoi book”—T.p. verso.
eISBN: 978-0-307-27298-0
1. Widows—Fiction. 2. Drug traffic—Fiction. 3. Family secrets—Fiction.
4. Mexican-American Border Region—Fiction. 5. Arizona—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3553.A625C76 2009
813′.54—dc22 2009019096

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
either are the product of the author’s imagination or are
used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons,
living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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