DO THEY KNOW I’M RUNNING: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 01240010B34267

English Summary/英文概要： From acclaimed author David Corbett, a stunning and suspenseful novel of a life without loyalties and the borders inside ourselves.

Roque Montalvo is wise beyond his eighteen years. Orphaned at birth, a gifted musician, he’s stuck in a California backwater, helping his Salvadoran aunt care for his damaged brother, an ex-marine badly wounded in Iraq. When immigration agents arrest his uncle, the family has nowhere else to turn. Roque, badgered by his street-hardened cousin, agrees to bring the old man back, relying on the criminal gangs that control the dangerous smuggling routes from El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, to the U.S. border.

But his cousin has told Roque only so much. In reality, he will have to transport not just his uncle but two others: an Arab whose intentions are disturbingly vague and a young beauty promised to a Mexican crime lord. Roque discovers that his journey involves crossing more than one kind of border, and he will be asked time and again to choose between survival and betrayal—of his country, his family, his heart.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 洛克·蒙塔沃的智慧显然已经超过了他十八岁的年龄，他刚出生便被遗弃，并拥有过人的音乐天分。他现今待在加利福尼亚一个闭塞的地方，帮助萨尔瓦多姑姑照顾在伊拉克海军受重伤的哥哥。当移民局的官员逮捕了他的叔叔后，整个家庭看起来已经走投无路了。由于受不了表哥的一再请求，洛克决定将叔叔解救出来。依靠来自萨尔瓦多的走私犯罪团伙，经由危地马拉和墨西哥，来到美国的边境。
但他的表哥所告诉他的，仅仅是表面而已，事实上，他要解救的不止是自己的叔叔，还有另外两个人：一个意图不明的阿拉伯人和一个年轻的女子。洛克发现，这场旅程中，他所跨越的边界并不止一个，并无时无刻不一再在生存和背叛间作抉择：他的国家，他的家人，以及他的内心……(ZH)

Awards/获奖情况：Corbett (Blood of Paradise) delivers a rich, hard-hitting epic that illuminates the violent and surreal landscapes of Central America and Mexico. After 18-year-old Roque Montalvo’s uncle, Faustino, an illegal Salvadoran immigrant, is deported in an INS sweep, Roque’s criminal cousin, Pablo “Happy” Orantes, cooks up a scheme to smuggle Faustino back to California, along with a mysterious Palestinian asylum seeker, but it involves a hefty price to Latin American thugs. Happy strikes a deal with an FBI agent, offering up a major drug dealer for his family’s citizenship papers. Roque travels from California to El Salvador, where he discovers that the gangsters want him to deliver a beautiful girl about his age, Lupe, to a vicious border crime leader. Roque and Lupe embark on an unforgettable journey north, pursued by banditos, police, and the FBI. Of course, Roque falls for Lupe and vows to help her escape a dismal fate. Fans of Luis Alberto Urrea and Don Winslow alike will be richly rewarded. (Mar.)

"With lyrical yet muscular prose, an ahead-of-the-headlines plot, and utterly believable characters, David Corbett’s Do They Know I’m Running? is nothing short of superb. This is not just a thriller, but an elegant novel, full of heart, soul, music, food, cruelty, betrayal, poverty and love. The line runs through Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene, straight on to David Corbett. I’m not kidding. He’s that good."---John Lescroart, author of A Plague of Secrets

"A scintillating, politically fuelled mystery that grabs you by the heart and never, never lets up. Think Graham Greene writing today with the narrative drive of Michael Connelly. Borders–in every sense of the word–are transformed and manipulated by writing that seems as effortless as it is compelling. Rarely does a novel knock you totally out of the park; this one does."---Ken Bruen, author of The Guard

"David Corbett’s new novel is a bold look into the darkness that is human-trafficking, a sharp revelation of the intended and unintended consequences of such evil. With powerful and observant prose he takes us on the smuggling routes, into the lives of those involved, the moments of terror and of hope. After reading Do They Know I’m Running? you can’t plead ignorance anymore."---Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter’s Bone

About the Author/作者介绍： 大卫·科贝特，是The Devil’s Redhead, Done for a Dime (a New York Times Notable Book), and Blood of Paradise的作者，其作品曾获多项奖，包括埃德加奖，华盛顿邮报2007年度十大惊悚小说，以及旧金山纪事报显著小说。他的短篇作品也曾发表在许多期刊选集上。其中Pretty Little Parasite入选2009年度美国最佳神秘故事集。

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