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Bordersnakes
Bordersnakes | James Crumley
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C.W. Sughrue has been gut-shot and left to die and is, for the first time in his life, actually scared—which makes him angry. Milo Milodragovitch has been robbed of his three-million dollar inheritance by a pipsqueak banker and a butch lady poet; he’s not scared at all, just pissed. In a spiffy suit and a red Cadillac, Milo trails his thieves to the Mexican border, where the community consists of “three kinds of drug smugglers, six different breeds of law dogs, and every kind of criminal ever dreamed up”—that is, bordersnakes. When Milo and Sughrue cross paths, they head off together on a dope-smoking, trash-talking, hard-drinking, blood-spattering roadtrip across the West.
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JoshCook
Bordersnakes | James Crumley
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This one moved a little slower than The Last Good Kiss (which is one of my favorite crime novels) and the shifting perspectives made it al little hard to follow (at least for airplane reading) but, when it finally all came together at the end, it was another one of Crumley's smart subversive novels.

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JoshCook
Bordersnakes | James Crumley
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Thinking of going on a noir binge on my vacation starting with on if my favorite under-appreciated crime writers, James Crumley.

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