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‘Crumley in scintillating form: an anarchic, savagely violent and brilliantly written lament for a vanishing past’ Evening Standard

James Crumley is the king of hard-boiled noir, credited with inspiring the next generation of crime writers – including Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly – and best known for his two private detectives, Milo Milodragovitch and C. W. Sughrue. He brought them together for one wild, pulse-pounding ride. This is that story.

Someone shot Sughrue and left him for dead, and someone stole Milo’s $3million inheritance. And they’re not the kind of men to let it go. They’ve joined forces in El Paso and they’re set for a wild ride across America. They’re out for revenge…

‘No one in American crime fiction writes sharper, more authentic dialogue, nor more exciting action, nor, beneath the tough façade, has a greater feel for the values and mores that really matter’ The Times

Length: 320 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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‘Wild, wicked, sweet, painful, courageous, outrageous and obscene’
New York Times

‘Crumley writes like an angel on speed… Indispensable’
Time Out

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Someone gut shot Sughrue in New Mexico and left him to live with his demons, running naked in the blood red desert sunset and loving the only woman who has ever managed to love him. Someone took all the money in Milodragovitch's daddy’s will, leaving Milo with a 2000 – dollar suit, a Cadillac El Dorado and a hard -on for retribution. Now Sughrue and Milodragovitch have hooked up in El Paso for a death trip across a country called Texas, to a state of mind called revenge.

For Milodragovitch, it's a matter of finding the banker who cheated him of his inheritance. For Sughrue it's all about confronting the man who set him up as target practice. For them both it's a case that revolves around a ranch house in Texas where two people have been tortured to death – and a cocaine – dusted death trap near the Mexican border.

“Wild, Wicked, Sweet, Painful, Courageous, Outrages and Obscene”
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

" A cocaine – fuelled enterprise which proves absolutely that Crumley's Texas …is the place to be."
GUARDIAN

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ASIN : B01BI3YJQS
Publisher : Transworld Digital (7 April 2016)
Language : English
File size : 2712 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 320 pages

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Brian E. Smith

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2018

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A bit rambling in parts, but just readable.

Allen Grain

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 February 2018

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I enjoyed the book and thought it the best in the series.

michel dyraffourg

perfect: fast and

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 October 2016

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perfect : fast and nice

Jim Nesbitt

Underappreciated Master

Reviewed in the United States on 21 June 2017

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Another dead Texan, Crumley is still a vastly underappreciated talent whose detective novels are laced with drugs, sex, booze and violence, all ladled out in unblinking and graphic detail. His rich, seedy and wild novels had a profound impact on my own writing, showing me it was a mighty fine thing to let my stories rip and describe sex and violence without the use of euphemism that insults the reader’s intelligence. His two main characters, private investigators Milo Milodragovitch and C.W. Sughrue, aren’t super sharp or super cool. They’re dogged and deeply flawed—and utterly human. I kept that in mind when I created the main character for my two novels, cashiered Dallas homicide detective Ed Earl Burch. In Bordersnakes, Crumley brings both of his main characters together in pursuit of the narcotrafficantes who left Sughrue gut-shot in a ditch and hiding out in the seared desert of West Texas and the banker who ripped off Milo’s three million dollar trust fund inheritance. The novel hurtles from the desert doublewide that serves as Sughrue’s hideout to El Paso, nearby New Mexico, Seattle and on to the big ranches on both sides of the Rio Grande, with a climatic and bloody finish in the lair of the narcos known as bordersnakes. Crumley’s descriptions of the landscape of the border between Texas and Mexico are so detailed you can feel the wind-blown grit on your tongue and the burn the unforgiving sun puts on your skin. This is a grim tale of revenge full of nasty characters with few redeeming qualities. It demands an equally grim setting, a land that Crumley brings to life as a character unto itself.

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Mark D. Puckett

raw writing amid the quintessence of the West that pokes fun of the detective genre all the way

Reviewed in the United States on 30 June 2017

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Crumley is one of the funniest "detective" writers around, raw writing amid the quintessence of the West that pokes fun of the detective genre all the way. While Bordersnakes is disjointed in a kind of a crazy but wild manner, I love the dual narration with Milo and Sughrue, characters he's used in previous books like the unstoppable Last Good Kiss (Sughrue) and The Wrong Case (Milo). I've read most of Crumley and while this may not be his most perfect, it's his most daring and memorable.

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