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The Rise and Fall of the Bank Robbery Capital of the World

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He watched her in the rising and falling glow of his cigarette and tried not to think about bleached bones and Mexican prisons and all the things that could go wrong smuggling twenty-five women and children across a homicidal desert."

– From “The Curve of the Earth”