Bøger af Thomas Torrans

A novel about barrack life in the Korean War

A young airman is unprepared for the life he finds overseas, but must leave. She is more realistic about their situation and knows how quickly promises fade.

Mayhem, Bible salesmen, and Latin America, and why they are related, all in the Audret Dossier, and the only way to settle some accounts.

A history of the U.S.-Mexico border, in song and politics during the brief rule of the National Action Party (PAN), when the cartels won the war on drugs.

A fearsome Russian soldier, tragic European contact, and a naive college student reveal a hidden history of the U.S.-Mexico border region, the fictional frontier wherein sex, crime, and cultural change play out. Based on Mr. Torrans' personal scholarship, these three short novels, each set in its own historical time period spanning from the age of exploration to the modern era, are cultural histories, told through fiction. Because, sometimes fiction is the only means of getting at the truth of things.

A career Government Service employee outlasts his longtime Warrant Officer nemesis only to wind up as a Pyrrhic victory of mysterious consequences.

Volume 2 of the Track of the Cotton Belt series. Autobiography, fiction, history, a story of the South.

A sequel to The Cold Warrior's Way, this completes the Tissue of Time series.

The continuing saga of the Vorreau Family in the Track of the Cotton Belt series

Autobiographical novel of growing up in the South.

The border region between Mexico and the United States is more dynamic than ever since its transition into a sort of Mexamerica - a world fueled by corporate colonialism, the North American Free Trade Agreement and contraband of every stripe. Forging the Tortilla Curtain reveals how the borderlands got to be that way.

The border region between Mexico and the United States has become a sort of Mexamerica - a world fuelled by corporate colonialism, the North American Free Trade Agreement (or NAFTA) and contraband. This text reveals how the borderlands have come to be this way.

This text looks at the United States-Mexico border in fiction, film and song. Borderlands have long served as backgrounds for depicting social instability. They are readily used as backdrops for films, novels, ballads, and tales in which characters shift easily from one culture to another.