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by. Cook, Bruce, 1932-.

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Mexican Standoff book. He wrote four novels featur/ Librarian Bruce Alexander Cook was an American journalist and author who also wrote under the pseudonym Bruce Alexander. He wrote historical fiction and nonfiction. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Cook's first book was a nonfiction work, The Beat Generation, published in 1971. His first novel was Chicago-based Sex Life, in 1978.

A Mexican standoff is a confrontation, among three or more parties, in which no strategy exists that allows any party to achieve victory. Any party initiating aggression might trigger their own demise. At the same time, the parties are unable to extricate themselves from the situation without suffering a loss. As a result, all participants need to maintain the strategic tension, which remains unresolved until some outside event makes it possible to resolve it.

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Hot on her trail is an embittered multi-millionaire Iranian crook ripped off by her on more than one occasion. Through cybercrime and classic violence, this mob war rages both online and in the streets, from Mexico to London, through India and Moscow, as the world’s authorities, always one step behind, try to make sense of it all. This hilarious intrigue rounds out a masterful trilogy, bringing back some beloved – and highly flawed – characters, whose fates refuse to disentangle themselves.

Bruce Alexander Cook (1932 – November 9, 2003) was an American journalist and author who also wrote under the pseudonym Bruce Alexander, creating historical novels about a blind 18th-century Englishman and also a 20th-century Mexican-American detecti.

Bruce Alexander Cook (1932 – November 9, 2003) was an American journalist and author who also wrote under the pseudonym Bruce Alexander, creating historical novels about a blind 18th-century Englishman and also a 20th-century Mexican-American detective. Cook was born in 1932 in Chicago. His family moved often as a child, his father being a train dispatcher with frequent new assignments. He earned a degree in literature from Loyola University (Chicago).

It refers to a no-win/no-lose situation. It does not require three participants; two is enough. Two horse carriages going in the opposite direction entered a narrow street and met halfway through. There's a 19th Century story in Mexico that illustrates the Mexican Standoff very well. Neither could move forward, and each insisted that the other back his horse carriage up. Each sent servants for foor and water, and both stayed firm for several days, until the authorities made both of them back up.