Bordersnakes: 3 (Milo Milodragovitch) - Softcover

Crumley, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1101971495 ISBN 13: 9781101971499

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2016

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"Scares you breathless, turns you upside down and inside out, and makes you almost forget at times that your life isn't really in danger." --Los Angeles Times

"Achingly good. . . . James Crumley is one of America's great undiscovered writers."--The A. V. Club

"Drawn with panache. . . . Like an overbudget western directed by an LSD-addled Raymond Chandler." --Publishers Weekly

"What Raymond Chandler did for the Los Angeles of the Thirties, James Crumley does for the roadside West of today." --Harper's

"Crumley can write scenes that are unique to him. He's is the rare writer who uses style, not tricks."--San Jose Mercury News

"If you like your detective fiction tough and tenacious you will love James Crumley. . . . No one does it better."--The Houston Chronicle

"Crumley is one of the finest additions to the private eye genre. . . . [He] brings to his books . . . a knowledge and understanding of the American psyche few writers in any genre have managed." --Buffalo News

"James Crumley is a first-rate American writer. . . . pyrotechnically entertaining, sexy, compassionate." --The Village Voice

From the Back Cover:

James Crumley's private eye novels featuring Milo Milodragovitch and C.W. Sughrue are regarded as masterpieces of contemporary crime fiction. Now for the first time, the author who has reinvented the hardboiled novel unites his two great characters, teaming them on a journey that fishtails through clouds of dust and pools of blood from Montana to the Texaco – Mexico Border.

Someone gut shot Sughrue in New Mexico and left him to deal with his demons, running naked in the blood red desert 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 just a 2,000 dollar Italian silk suit and a Cadillac El Dorado – and a hard on for retribution. Now, Sughrue and Milodragovitch, two of the most hard bitten 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 all about 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 Mexican border.

"The cult status James Crumley has gained with his thrillers helps us to understand the way in which his writing works. As with Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald, we can have a clear sense of his virtues if we look at the way he reflects his times... Crumley's ear for speech is as fine as any writer in his genre"
TLS

"Wild, wicked, sweet, painful, courageous, outrageous and obscene"
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"One of the best crime writers in America... Devotees of Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler will seize on Crumley with delight"
DAILY MAIL

"Undoubtedly the rightful heir to Chandler or Ross MacDonald"
DAILY TELEGRAPH

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1101971495
• ISBN 13: 9781101971499
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320