James Crumley: Bordersnakes (USA 2016)

From the Publisher:
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.

James Crumley: Bordersnakes. Vintage Crime / Black Lizard, ISBN: 9781101971499 (July, 2016), 302 p., $18.00.

James Crumley: Bordersnakes (UK 2016)

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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

James Crumley: Bordersnakes. Transworld Digital, ISBN: 9781473540682 (April, 2016), 2.20 MB (ca. 256 p.), £6.99.

James Crumley: Bordersnakes (UK 1998)

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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.

James Crumley: Bordersnakes. Flamingo, ISBN: 0006550797 (October, 1998), 336 p., £6.99.

James Crumley: Bordersnakes (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
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 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.

James Crumley: Bordersnakes. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446604488 (September, 1997), 288 p., $6.50.

James Crumley: Bordersnakes (USA 1996)

From the Publisher:
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 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.

James Crumley: Bordersnakes. A Novel. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0892965738 (November, 1996), 320 p., $22.00.