government beefed up its drug war and called pot a deadly gateway drug, Canada flirted with legalization and grew so much marijuana indoors that Forbes called "B.C. I interviewed Canadian activists and growers and found the B.C. I watched agents marvel like teenagers over piles of potent buds. What they were primarily doing was intercepting huge loads of British Columbia marijuana bound for big cities in the West. But when I rode along with agents it became obvious that nobody was catching terrorists.
The Border Patrol tripled its northern force during the two years after 9/11. JL: I did lots of research, first as a reporter, then as a novelist. Q: Did you have to do much research for this novel? Ride around with border-patrol agents? Talk to folks who might have some insight into running a vast and highly organized marijuana smuggling business? Or operating a dairy farm? How close to the border do you yourself live? And yes, there were many news flashes on both sides of the ditch that helped inspire this story. Just the sight of the ever increasing number of green-and-white Border Patrol cars traversing the quiet farmlands was enough to get the novel rolling in my head. The western end of the border is not only gorgeous but a mindbender, too, seeing how the two countries are often divided by nothing more than a drainage ditch. Jim Lynch: I got hooked on the notion of setting a novel along the border after several trips up there as a journalist looking into security fears and marijuana smuggling. border that gave rise to the idea for this novel? Question: What was your inspiration for Border Songs? Were there any actual incidents on the Canadian/U.S.
His turns of phrase are as light as a feather, but so precise and purposeful that you'll quickly find yourself buoyed by the vistas they show you. Jim Lynch writes with enviable restraint, and he sees in a most unexpected way how a person's life clicks and tumbles into (or out of) place. It takes a special kind of wordsmith to create a character like Brandon-and indeed, to craft his whole supporting cast, who are by turns ordinary and ornery (in a way that might remind you of the best moments of Northern Exposure). Brandon is a rookie agent on a streak of successful smuggling busts during a period when border traffic is at an all-time high, bringing a swift and seismic stroke of change to a corner of the continent that once felt settled and secure. But he's also a remarkably acute defender of a North American border that Jim Lynch describes as "multiple-choice.with incoming settlers finding an American, a Canadian, and a compromise in-between" in Border Songs. Amazon Best of the Month, June 2009: Preternaturally tall and painfully innocent, Brandon Vanderkool is more bird than border patrol agent, prone to mimicking birdsong and building nests.
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