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When DEA agent Vince Calhoun's luck runs out, he becomes involved in a last-chance smuggling caper in Tijuana on the Mexican Day of the Dead
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If "American noir" were in the dictionary, you might find Kent Harrington's picture in place of the definition. His first thriller, Dark Ride, starts with a quote from the Prince of Darkness himself, Jim Thompson: "The darkness and myself. Everything else was gone and the little that was left of me was going, faster and faster." His second, Dia de los Muertos, begins with lines from D. H. Lawrence and a Mexican folksong that say essentially the same thing: life is futile, violent, and nasty--and then you die. But along the way, Harrington, like Thompson before him, manages to give his readers a wonderful time. Rogue DEA agent Vincent Calhoun regards Mexico in general and Tijuana in particular as his own private playland: he augments his government salary by smuggling upscale aliens into the United States for a sinister British villain named Slaughter. "Without realizing it, Slaughter had gone to seed. All the money he was making in the rackets didn't seem to matter--it was as if Tijuana was infecting him and he couldn't stop it. He'd gone completely native in that peculiar English way." Calhoun's perfect world starts to come apart when, weakened by fever and gambling debts, he lets Slaughter pressure him into taking a 400-pound gangster named Frank Guzman into California. That scene, like the rest of this relentlessly gripping book, begs to be filmed.
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- PublisherDennis McMillan Pubns
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0939767309
- ISBN 13 9780939767304
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages244
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing, hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt letters on spine. 244 pages. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with short crease at bottom corner of front flap. Mylar cover on jacket. SIGNED (signature only) by the author on the title page. "The only ones who make it in Tijuana are the players-the ones who live off the hunger, desperation, and despair of the others. Vincent Calhoun was making it. Why not? He was DEA, and he and his partner Castro, a crooked judicale, were making a fortune on the side as coyotes, crossing wealthy crooks and refugees into the U.S. - the wealthy ones who didn't really care about the formalities of immigration. It helped support his gambling habit. His luck, his suerte, had been good, very good - right up until the Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos. Then a girl got off the bus, and the nightmare/ecstacy of his past sucker-punched him, hard. The roller-coaster to Hell had started, and he was riding in the front car-riding a bucking juggernaut of dog-speed, kinky sex, ruinous gambling debts, dengue fever and hot lead all the way down.". Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 135068
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