The Mexicans is a multifaceted portrait of the complex, increasingly turbulent neighbor to our south. It is the story of a country in crisis -- poverty, class tensions, political corruption -- as told through stories of individuals. 
From Augustín, an honest cop, we learn that many in the Mexican police force use torture as their number-one-crime-solving technique; from Julio Scherer Garcia, a leading newspaper editor, we learn how kidnapping and intimidating phone calls stifle people despite his meager income; we hear from a homosexual teacher wary of bigotry in a land of machismo; and many others. 
Moving from Mexico City discos to remote Indian towns, Patrick Oster tells of Mexicans whose lives reveal something vital about Mexico, and in doing so, helps to understand why many decide to risk their lives in order to have the opportunity to live in the United States.

The Mexicans: A Personal Portrait of a People

History

Oster, Patrick

Americas

Harper-perennial

A portrait of our southern neighbor in crisis, written by an award-winning reporter and told by Mexicans from every walk of life.

Mexicans, The

HarpPeren

Sheds light on a country that is at once a close neighbor and an unknown world, in a look at the real Mexico--the people and places encompassing a land of tremendous struggle and resiliency

William Morrow & Co.

It seemed an innocent enough idea. After Barnaby Gilbert got laid off with a nice severance, his boss suggested he take up a new hobby to fill up his free time. On his regular commuter train, Barnaby got an idea what that hobby would be. He decided to satisfy a curiosity he’d long had. An avid birder, he began tracking some regular passengers — people he’d always wondered about — to see where they went and what they did. In following a Chinese man, a schoolgirl, and a sexy woman, he used the same techniques he had to add hawks and herons to his life list. But in this quirky, tongue-in-cheek thriller, he found out pretty fast that humans were a much more dangerous species.

The Commuter

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Pinder Lane & Garon-Brooke Associates, Ltd.

The Hacker Chronicles An Aloysius Wachter Detective Novel Aloysius Wachter, a clandestine hacker forced by circumstances to turn amateur detective, recounts several of his adventures that begin with spotting a murder on his first night on the job at a city agency that monitors everyone and everything through a 10,000 camera system. The improbable hero starts sleuthing to save a beautiful young woman falsely suspected of the crime. He battles disbelieving cops, feds and Israeli hit men, and soon he’s being chased by Chinese cyber-spies and Russian hackers in episodes ripped from 21st Century headlines. Helping him are two pals: Vassily, a Russian hacker on the run from his former gang, and Michelle, Vassily’s girlfriend, a Chinese hacker who used to work for the People’s Liberation Army. By the end of their adventures, Vic, Vassily and Michelle muse that their lives seem like a bizarro tale out of Alexander McCall Smith’s imagination, jokingly calling themselves the No. 1 Hackers Detective Agency.

The Hacker Chronicles

Mystery

Padraig Press

The Obituary WriterSomething just didn’t seem right when Wallace McRae got word in the middle of the night that an eminent chemist he’d just interviewed had taken his own life by slashing his wrists with a straight razor in his bath tub.McRae’s job, which he’d been forced to take after getting fired for drinking, was to prepare obituaries of famous, older people so his new employer, dead.com, could respond to a person’s death with a quick story, ideally full of dirt and rumors that would attract online viewers – and advertising. His odious boss’s motto on how far to go in writing an obituary was: “You can’t libel a dead man.”Taking the job was a Faustian bargain. McRae, known to all as just Mack, had traded his skills as a prize-winning investigative reporter for health insurance that covered the mounting medical bills of his dying wife.Mack had often interviewed the dead chemist, who was obsessed with winning the Nob el Prize for his breakthrough work on obesity and dementia. As he told his boss the night he got the news of the man’s death: “He didn’t have a suicidal bone in his body.”Intrigued, his boss ordered him to dig into the matter, mostly because he saw the possibility of millions of eyeballs coming to his obituary website to read a juicy, viral story. Mack saw something different: a chance to redeem himself with a legitimate scoop that showed the man’s official suicide had been something more sinister.As he would find, others with a huge financial interest in the true story were willing to resort to threats and even murder to muzzle Mack before he could print the truth.

The Obituary Writer: A Murder Novel

Patrick Oster

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The Mexicans: A Personal Portrait of a People

Mexicans, The

The Mexicans: A Personal Portrait of a People

The Commuter

The Hacker Chronicles

The Obituary Writer: A Murder Novel