ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: Alan Cheuse has our review.</s>ALAN CHEUSE: Long before the time his story reaches a climax in the smugglers paradise of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, where the borders of Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay meet, the reader will be racing along through the pages of Rotella's novel at near breakneck speed.</s>ROBERT SIEGEL, Host: "Triple Crossing" is the new novel from journalist Sebastian Rotella. Our reviewer Alan Cheuse teaches writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Sebastian Rotella, a journalist who wrote Twilight on the Line: Underworlds and Politics at the Mexican Border, has himself now crossed over into the realm of fiction. In his novel Triple Crossing, he dramatizes the devastating story of drug trafficking and government corruption along our southern border.