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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Crumley could write! This is one of his best, just behind Mexican Tree Ducks, in my view. He wraps up all the loose ends and weaves a fun and intriguing tale. From adding colors to the color wheel ("dog d**k pink"), bringing new meaning to "digging (your) own grave", and perfectly describing fascinating characters ("1000 ants short of a picnic"), Crumley brings Shugrow and Milo together for another adventure.
Entertaining, but overly long. Funny in some ways, but also unnecessarily over-the-top violent. Kinda like a graphic action/murder novel in words, written for adolescents of all ages.
Funny? Not! Very violent, confusing viewpoints, characters that I could give a shit about. I will not bother reading this guy again.
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He won the 1994 Dashiell Hammett Award for Best Literary Crime Novel for the Mexican Tree Duck. He lives in Montana. (Publisher Provided) Author James Crumley was born in Three Rivers, Texas on October 12, 1939. He enlisted in the Army in the late 1950s and served in the Philippines. He studied history at the Texas College of Arts and Industries show more and earned a master's degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1966. His first book, One to Count Cadence, was published in 1969. He wrote seven private eye novels featuring either Milton Chester Milodragovitch or C. W. Sughrue. He also wrote a collection of essays and short fiction entitled The Muddy Fork and Other Things. He died on September 17, 2008 at the age of 68. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Il confine dell'inganno
- Original title
- Bordersnakes
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- C.W. Sughrue; Milton Chester Milodragovitch
- Important places
- Texas, USA
- Dedication
- for Martha Elizabeth
- First words
- As we climbed out of the plane the automatic runway landing lightssnapped off, leaving us in the soft desert darkness surrounding the small field.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"I guess it's never too late," she said, then opened the gate.
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