The Naked Twilight

In the 1960s, the adversaries of the border guards were much the same as they are today: public apathy, inept management, political obstruction, Communist agitation, the growing corporate globalist movement, negligent prosecutors and courts. There was also the infamous, frustrating "revolving door" that required the guardians of the nations borders to daily release dangerous criminals without fingerprinting, photographing or otherwise identifying them. None of these obstacles to his...
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In the 1960s, the adversaries of the border guards were much the same as they are today: public apathy, inept management, political obstruction, Communist agitation, the growing corporate globalist movement, negligent prosecutors and courts. There was also the infamous, frustrating "revolving door" that required the guardians of the nations borders to daily release dangerous criminals without fingerprinting, photographing or otherwise identifying them. None of these obstacles to his job were unknown to bachelor Rodney Capers when he transferred from Laredo to El Paso to continue work on an English degree hed started in the Army and pursued in Laredo. In addition, the rakish Rodney planned to enjoy El Pasos abundance of beautiful girls. Unknown to him was the pugnacious, violent and rapacious nature of the border violators in El Paso in comparison to those in Laredo. Shortly after arriving in El Paso, while working alone one night in a lonely stretch of the border called the "Big Deuce," he was wounded in a river struggle with a notorious cat burglar, kidnapper and sex pervert. Over the next year he worked long hours, alone after regular shifts, hoping for a rematch. As a student he was assigned a steady diet of night line duties with other part-time students and frustrated malcontents that made their own rules of engagement and targeted particularly violent and troublesome criminals. A contagion of cynicism, rampant in El Paso, grew within Rodney until a girl with a strange Aztec name challenged his self-image and triggered an inner struggle with his demons, stirring emotions long dormant since a broken high school romance.