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BORDERLAND NOIRStories & Essays of Love & Death Across the Rio Grande Edited by Craig McDonald Now available from Betimes Books Welcome to La Frontera: You're headed way out west this time, intrepid reader, far past where you've dared go before. Your troubled guides along these dusty, bloody stretches of The Devil's Highway are much-awarded crime novelists, journalists and border-dwelling troubadours. They serve up stories and essays about lives threatened chasing the elusive, often deadly dream of more money and better futures beckoning north and south of the border. Emiliano Zapata declared, "It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." In that spirit, these bards of the borderland are swinging for the barbed-wire fences: all swagger and dark visions, hell-bent on sweeping you along with them across the Rio Grande to a broken Promised Land. Like treacherous Coyotes, they may gut-shoot you or break your heart in the crossing, but however it goes down, know these hombres are determined to make you feel it. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CONTENTS: FOREWORD by Craig McDonald Then (Excerpt from El Gavilan by Craig McDonald) PART I: NORTH OF THE BORDER Mike MacLean: Coyote's Ballad Ken Bruen: To Have and To Hold Garnett Elliott: Trailer de Fuego John Stickney: Reading the Footnotes Stephen D. Rogers: Tumbled Craig McDonald: Broken Promised Land PART II: BORDERLAND (FILM) NOIR Dave Zeltserman: Touch of Evil PART III: THE CENTAUR OF THE NORTH Jim Cornelius: Pancho Villa—Fourth Horseman of the Mexican Apocalypse PART IV: SOUTH OF THE BORDER Manuel Ramos: No Hablo Inglés Bradley Mason Hamilton: Work of Wolves Martín Solares: B.Traven (excerpted from The Black Minutes) James Sallis: Ferryman Sam Hawken: Corrida de Toros AFTERWORDS Tom Russell: Where God and The Devil Wheel Like Vultures Now (Excerpt from El Gavilan by Craig McDonald) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Order now! Betimes Books, trade paperback, October 2015: ISBN: 978-0992967499  |
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