{"id":2,"date":"2014-10-02T19:10:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T19:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-10-02T19:13:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T19:13:38","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Night Sun by Raul Novo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/539\/2014\/10\/978-1-60911-188-5-RNovoCover.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/539\/2014\/10\/978-1-60911-188-5-RNovoCover.jpg\" alt=\"978-1-60911-188-5-RNovoCover\" width=\"384\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/539\/2014\/10\/978-1-60911-188-5-RNovoCover.jpg 588w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/539\/2014\/10\/978-1-60911-188-5-RNovoCover-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a>About the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two brothers engaged in drug smuggling cross the U.S. Mexican border so often that they know precisely when and where U.S. Border Patrol agents are watching.<\/p>\n<p>In<em> The Night Sun,<\/em> Miguel and Cesar Ramirez-Barrios come under fire from rival drug cartels and the American Border Patrol, as well as their own cartel while crossing the border with a large amount of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Corruption, greed, and deceit entangle these powerful groups as they wrestle for control of this dangerous zone of Southern Arizona near Ambos Nogales, the official port of entry on the international border. When the mutilated bodies of two American border patrol agents are found there, Alejandra Mendoza Thomas is the local TV personality covering the gruesome murders.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel and Cesar\u2019s ill-fated journey moving their drugs promptly takes an unexpected detour that puts them at the epicenter of the cartels\u2019 campaign of carnage along the border.<\/p>\n<p>In desperation, Cesar prays to Jesus Malverde, the patron saint of narco traffickers, and also pays homage to <em>The Night Sun<\/em>, the Mayan legend of the jaguar. While Miguel doesn\u2019t believe in the Mexican black arts, he too begins to pray as their journey north explodes in violence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/539\/2014\/10\/Raul-Novo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/539\/2014\/10\/Raul-Novo-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Raul Novo\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/539\/2014\/10\/Raul-Novo-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/539\/2014\/10\/Raul-Novo-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/539\/2014\/10\/Raul-Novo.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>Raul Novo<\/strong> emigrated to the U.S. with his parents in 1960 from Havana, Cuba. He is a criminal defense lawyer in the greater Richmond, Virginia area. Most of his clients are from Mexico and Central America.<em> The Night Sun<\/em> is complete fiction, but some of his clients\u2019 stories inspired him to delve into their harrowing journeys north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Book Two brothers engaged in drug smuggling cross the U.S. Mexican border so often that they know precisely when and where U.S. Border Patrol agents are watching. In The Night Sun, Miguel and Cesar Ramirez-Barrios come under fire from rival drug cartels and the American Border Patrol, as well as their own cartel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/raulnovo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}