- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (5 Oct 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006550797
- ISBN-13: 978-0006550792
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 201,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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For the first time, the author who has reinvented the hard-boiled novel unites his two great characters – Milo Mildragovitch and C W Sughrue – teaming them on a journey that fishtails through clouds of dust and pools of blood from Montana to the Texas-Mexico border.
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 Milodragovitch with just a two-thousand-dollar silk suit and a Cadillac El Dorado – and a hard-on for retribution. Now, Sughrue and Milodragovitch, two of the most hardbitten cases the West ever produced, have come together 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 absconded with his inheritance. For Sughrue, it’s confronting the man who set him up for target practice. And for both, it’s a case that revolves around a ranch house in Austin where two people were tortured to death – and a luxurious cocaine-dusted death trap near the border.
Bordersnakes is a crime novel that careens from living hell to waking nightmare, with all the aching beauty and searing sadness that only James Crumley can deliver.
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Format:Paperback
and well worth digging into, its different, the writing style is 'american'- sparse and harsh and I love the way it switches from one first persons perspective and grouchyness to the other. hardnosed characters well fleshed out, violent, descriptive and scenic,tricky to follow -good. I shall be looking for more of this writers work.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Unfortunately. this is one of those cases I fell prey to a snazzy jacket design and paid for it with a few hours of my life. It's not a bad crime story, but the plot is overly convoluted, and it never really gets better than beach or plane reading. Prospective readers should be aware that the two main characters, Milo and Sughrue, are from earlier Crumely works, and without reading those (The Wrong Case, Dancing Bear), one is liekly missing all kinds of background and development that might make them more interesting here. Of course many readers, myself included, found nothing particularly compelling about a pair of 50+-year-old boozers and drug users. The story, which concerns the duo's hunt for a Mexican drug lord and killer, takes place in south Texas and New Mexico, an area I know little about, which also made it a little hard to get into. The narrative is first-person, switching between the two characters in alternating sections, which might have worked had the two characters hadn't been so similar. Next time I won't be suckered by the jacket and will stick to the good stuff, like George Pelecanos.
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've read earlier James Crumley and enjoyed it immensely. This one, although it does have its high spots and in places is quite funny, disappointed. Perhaps it was because I haven't read the novels in which the two heroes first appear. But mainly I just got very confused. The plot was too complex for me. I kept on forgetting who everyone was and who did what. After a while, the bodies kept coming and I lost the plot. Don't read if you have a sensitive stomach. It's pretty violent (again, I don't remember this of the earlier ones), and gratuitously so in places.
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