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By Clark Isaacs

IllegalAuthor: Paul LevineISBN: 978-0-553-80673-1, Pages: 384, $22.00, Publication Date: March 2009, HardCover, Mystery & Detective, Published by Bantam Dell, a division of Random House,Inc.

Contemporary writers sometimes hit the nail right on the head with such a forceful blowthat causes readers to wonder what is really going on at the border between the UnitedStates and Mexico. Paul Levine’s novel Illegal is one of the few books with such clarity

of description that he demonstrates the trafficking to be more horrific than the medialeads us to believe.

The main character in this novel is Jimmy “Royal” Payne. He is an attorney who from page one gets into trouble with the law, which leads to a never-ending saga of escapades back and forth across the border. Payne, even with his own problems, reaches out to provide assistance to Tino Perez, a 12 year-old boy that has illegally entered the UnitedStates. Perez’s mother was separated from the boy as they tried to cross the border and

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5 The Host. Stephenie Meyer;

Little, Brown, $25.99. ISBN 9780316068048.

Non-Fiction

1 Act Like a Lady, Think Like A Man. Steve Harvey;

Amistad, $23.99. ISBN 978-0-06-172897-6.2 Liberty and Tyranny.  Levin, Mark;

Threshold Editions, $25. ISBN 9781416562856.3 Outliers. Malcolm Gladwell;

Little, Brown, $27.99. ISBN 9780316017923.4 A Lion Called Christian.  Anthony Bourke;

Broadway, $21.95. ISBN 9780767932301.5 The Yankee Years. Torre, Joe;

Doubleday, $26.95. ISBN 978-0-385-52740-8.

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