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This book tried to make “Deliverance�� look like water ride at Disney.

Set on the Rio Grande, Borderline centers around an unbelievable and unlikeable character named Anna Pigeon who is on administrative leave from her job in the police department for a stress disorder.

In search for some R & R, Anna and her husband sign up for a river raft tour down the river and before you know it, she spots starving longhorn cow on the mountain which prompts her to trail up the unsafe passage, lure the cow down, and strap it to a raft. No surprise here, the raft hits dangerous rapids and ejects the whole group in the river, cow and all.

Searching for the cow, and supplies she comes across a nearly dead pregnant woman in the river who dies once she lays eyes on Anna and mumbles something about “saving the baby��. Anna, with her husband’s rusty, yet handy pocket knife performs an emergency cesarean like a seasoned neo-natal surgeon.

Soon after the operation, her group is being shot at by hiding bandits in the mountain, and now stresed-out Anna must proceed to unwind and solve an absolutely idiotic murder plot that involves the mayor of Texas, all while dodging gunfire, running into deserts and diving into rivers while toting this new born infant around like a bag of groceries.

To all those aspiring writers out there; find out who Nevada Barr uses as an editor, and run the other way, just make sure you don’t have a new-born in your arms when doing so.