Border Run A Novel Author:Simon Lewis New from the author of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-nominated Bad Traffic, a fast-paced adventure novel about a group of backpackers who find themselves in serious trouble in the jungle of Southeast Asia. On the Burmese border two naÏve backpackers, Will and Jake, follow a tour guide into the jungle, tantalized by the possibility of dallianc... more »es with the tribal women who live there. At an idyllic waterfall, they discover that nothing is as it seems; the girls they are frolicking with are paid, and they have been brought along to provide cover for their tour guide?s smuggling operation. When confronted by a customs official, Jake kills him with a crossbow. Trying to cover up the crime only leads to more trouble?lines are drawn and crossed, and best friends turn into mortal enemies, as the westerners struggle to deal with their unfolding nightmare. In the tradition of Alex Garland?s The Beach, Lewis has written a gripping, amphetamine-paced novel about the hidden perils that can lurk within an unspoiled and remote paradise. « less