Raul Sanchez: 3 books

Four cops in a ratty room, gathering evidence for a drug bust. Scoping out a bad guy, the "tag." Three of them are veterans: cynical and obscene, barely suppressing their anger at the world and their own lives. The "new guy" watches and learns, and takes their casual abuse. We...

Once they had a country, a culture, a future. Today, upheaval and betrayal have turned their world upside down. And for one family-a U.S. war hero, his deeply religious wife, and their impressionable fourteen-year-old son-a new struggle has just begun. Mano Suarez made a choice to fight against...

After years of anti-immigrant backlash, anger seethes in the nation's Latino communities. The crowded streets bristle with restless youth, idled by a deep recession. When undercover detectives in San Antonio accidentally kill a young Latina bystander during a botched drug bust, riots erupt across...