Posted:
July 18, 2021
Book Review
Crumley, James (1996). Bordersnakes.
James Crumley (1939-2008) has been described by Maxim Jakubowsky as “one of modern crime writing’s best practitioners” and anyone who has read a selection of his work will probably agree. He is another of those Texas writers who moved to Montana, and worked at the University of Montana in the English faculty.
His writing is driven, sometimes violent, and always descriptive of a hard life. The author was profligate with his own living practices – cocaine six days a week, eating five times a day and consuming a bottle of whiskey a day. His characters exhibit much of the same. Crumley at his best presents his material as a real road warrior, Hunter S. Thompson style.