Lawrence Block

Borderline (The Classic Crime Library, #22) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

BORDERLINE

"In the summer of 1958, I turned twenty years old. I had been working for a little less than a year as an editor at Scott Meredith Literary Agency, even as I had begun selling stories to crime fiction magazines. (All of this is detailed in A Writer Prepares, if you care.) I'd decided to return in the fall to Antioch College, and I'd left my job in May and spent June in my parent's house in Buffalo, writing my first novel. (Shadows, by Jill Emerson-if you care.) Now I was off to Mexico with my freshman roommate, Steve Schwerner, for an interlude of debauchery before the fall semester. "We flew to Houston, then spent a day hitchhiking to Laredo, where we found an inexpensive hotel. The following day we crossed the border to the Mexican town of Nuevo Laredo, where we found our way to the large public square. We began walking around the square, and when one of the locals asked if we were looking for anything in particular, one or the other of us asked tentatively if we could perhaps buy some marijuana. 'Oh, no,señores,' was the reply. 'Marijuana is not legal in Mexico.' We walked a little further, and asked the same question of another helpful citizen, who gave us the same answer pretty much word for word. "'I guess it's not as easy as I heard,' Steve said. "We walked the rest of the way around the little park, and a dapper fellow approached us, announcing himself as Ernesto. 'I hear you guys are in the market for a little pot,' he said. "It was an interesting couple of weeks, that trip to Mexico. It did not end well, but that's another story. And BORDERLINE is also another story, its background drawn from those few days in Nuevo Laredo, its storyline the outflow of a young man's fertile imagination." ~Lawrence Block "It is wonderful piece of old-fashioned pulp and one of the amazing things about it is that it was written so long ago. It combines many of the risqué elements of Block's early writings in the dimestore paperback industry with the mystery elements of his later writings. Here, you have hippie hitchikers, professional gamblers, divorced housewives out to experience life for the first time, and a serial killer stalking and mutilating his prey. Block takes the reader into an amazing journey, first focusing on one of these people and then on the next and weaving them into this tale." ~Dave Wilde, Amazon reviewer

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lawrence Block
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798224634521
• Artikelnr.: 69932773

Autorenporträt

Lawrence Block has been writing award-winning mystery and suspense fiction for half a century. His newest book, pitched by his Hollywood agent as "James M. Cain on Viagra," is The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes. His other recent novels include The Burglar Who Counted The Spoons, featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr; Hit Me, featuring philatelist and assassin Keller; and A Drop Of The Hard Stuff, featuring Matthew Scudder, brilliantly embodied by Liam Neeson in the new film, A Walk Among The Tombstones. Several of his other books have also been filmed, although not terribly well. He's well known for his books for writers, including the classic Telling Lies For Fun & Profit and Write For Your Life, and has just published a collection of his writings about the mystery genre and its practitioners, The Crime Of Our Lives. In addition to prose works, he has written episodic television (Tilt!) And the Wong Kar-wai film, My Blueberry Nights. He is a modest and humble fellow, although you would never guess as much from this biographical note.