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Title: El Cop Author: Robert Decker Publisher: Power Plot Publishing Form: Hardcover Illustrated: --- Number of Pages: 254 ISBN: : 978-0-9798808-0-3 Price: $14.95 + $0.00 (Shipping) = $14.95 Click Order Form to Order

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Corrupt in some areas, dedicated public defenders in others, the Mexican police range from the bungling Keystone variety to super-sleuth. As a resident of several Mexican towns, a traveler in many, I observed their activities. Much too frequently, they observed mine.

Until I met the Samaha sisters, Mexico was Moorish fountains, inspiring cathedrals, and compelling customs. There were no corrupt officials, no senseless murders, no maddening intrigue. A heroic corner policeman was not a devoted friend. He was not EI Cop.

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Soon we were sliding into a booth and selecting Swiss enchiladas from the menu of an Italian restaurant. While we waited, I made what I hoped would be my final proposal to be helpful. Provided she gathered up her belongings, I would move them in time for the children to bed down in their new apartment.

I fully expected her to suggest that we all bed down there; instead, she said nothing. She was gazing toward an American who had just accommodated himself at the lunch counter. The blood drained from her face. She trembled, like someone in the shivering stage of malaria. When the stranger returned her stare, she muttered, “Oh, my God! Why him?” then slipped limply from the booth, and ran to the back of the restaurant, through a curtain marked DAMAS.

I reached down almost reverently and retrieved the filmy negligee she had worn so coquettishly and alluringly a few nights earlier. Now, I could think only of the agonizing emptiness of it and almost sense the fragrant, warm body that had given it such graceful beauty–and life! I wanted to foil time itself and return to that night when she stood opposite me at the water cooler. I wanted to caress the living firmness of that lacy garment instead of feeling its horrible weightlessness cascading through my fingers with a whisper of death

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