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Title Border songs / Jim Lynch.
Author Lynch, Jim, 1961-
Publisher New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Description 291 pages ; 25 cm
Edition First edition.
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 EI-Adult Collection  LYNCH Nearby on shelf  30626001893961 11-11-11  AVAILABLE
Note "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
"A novel"--Cover.
Summary Six foot eight and severely dyslexic, Brandon Vanderkool has always had an unusual perspective -- which comes in handy once his father pushes him off their dairy farm and into the Border Patrol. He used to jump over the ditch into British Columbia but now is responsible for policing a thirty-mile stretch of this largely invisible boundary. Uncomfortable in his uniformed role, he indulges his passion for bird-watching and often finds not only an astonishing variety of species but also a great many smugglers hauling pot into Washington State, as well as potentially more dangerous illegals. What a decade before was a sleepy rural hinterland is now the front line of an escalating war on both drugs and terrorism.
Subject Dairy farms -- Fiction.
Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
Dyslexia -- Fiction.
Border patrol agents -- Fiction.
Bird watching -- Fiction.
Human trafficking -- Fiction.
Drug traffic -- Fiction.
Conduct of life -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Washington (State) -- Fiction.
ISBN 9780307271174
030727117X