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The Naked Twilight
Author: Russ Spencer

Bachelor border guard Rodney Capers transferred from Laredo to El Paso to resume work on an English degree. After a few days he learns that the international border crossers in El Paso are more pugnacious and violent than most of those in Laredo. One of them is a kidnapper who injures Rodney after a foot pursuit that ends in a riverside struggle... more ». The suspect who is code-named Nestor Bazo managed to escape across the international border. From that point on, Capers is obsessed with capturing him, often working alone without additional compensation. However, after the initial encounter, his quarry mysteriously disappears for a year. After a few months in El Paso, Rodney finds himself assigned to a unit reserved for malcontents, renegades and part-time college students. They are not insubordinate, but frequently demand answers from an incompetent management with no answers, which dismisses them as troublemakers. They receive the least desirable assignments, such as permanent night shifts along the Rio Grande. They are known as SLIBs, a euphemistic acronym. The SLIBs are mostly dedicated men whose frustration with the system has caused them to become cynical and seek alternative ways to cope with the infamous "revolving door" that forces them to release violent criminals without identifying them by fingerprints. To cope with the frustrations of an apathetic, ungrateful society, incompetent bureaucratic leadership, unconcerned prosecutors and courts, and social isolation, The SLIBs devise an amorphous "project," referred to only in oblique terms. At first, Rodney figured that the project was mostly a fantasy, a conversational proposition that helped them pass long, boring shifts in isolated areas. Until his sobering encounter with Bazo, he equated it with the griping of military personnel, and he figured that no one in the SLIBs actually took it seriously. Rodney meets a border beauty with an Aztec name, a student like him, whose carpool friends cause her to wind up, reluctantly, in a border patrol groupie lounge. She accepts a ride home with Rodney to avoid riding with her drinking carpool driver, and what Rodney thought would be another easy conquest turns into a battle of ideals with a strong-willed young woman. She challenges his self-image and triggers a conflict with his inner demons and stirs emotions in him long dormant since a broken high school romance. Rodney's many troubles include a recurring nightmare that leads him to believe he is Mikhail Lermontov, a Russian critical writer and poet, who along with other writers, was exiled to the Caucasus only to be murdered in duels that he has come to believe were rigged. The Naked Twilight is a novel of coping with the improbable. Its characters range from the demimonde to the sterling and give the readers some insights into a thankless, controversial job that will hold their interest from the beginning to the surprising conclusion.

ISBN-13: 9781932672329
ISBN-10: 193267232X
Publication Date: 10/30/2004
Pages: 236
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Publisher: Outskirts Press
Book Type: Paperback
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