Body Parts & Zero Tolerance

Two wild, long-buried collaborations between legendary screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer and iconoclastic filmmaker Alex Cox, written as a follow-up to their now-legendary Walker at the tail end of the Reagan era and uncannily prophetic in tone. Zero Tolerance and Body Parts plunge into a world where the American Southwest and Honduras become scorched frontiers of corruption, paranoia, and moral collapse - part neo-noir, part political fever dream, and unlike anything else in American independent cinema.

Combining Wurlitzer's existential fatalism with Cox's anarchic satire and pulp exuberance, the scripts follow a suspended Tucson detective and a hapless desert security guard as each stumbles, in his own way, into the wreckage of American imperial ambition - one stalking the violent underside of Reagan-era Sun Belt prosperity, the other deep in a Central American nightmare of warlords, CIA ghosts, and shrimp-farming oligarchs. Violent, hilarious, and hallucinatory, these are savage dispatches from the borderlands where empire, greed, and delusion collide.

Presented in a special tête-bêche edition with cover photographs by Lynn Davis and an introduction by James Kenney.

Alex Cox is the acclaimed director of Repo Man, Sid and Nancy, and Walker, and the author of numerous books on film and culture. Rudy Wurlitzer is a novelist and screenwriter whose credits include Two-Lane Blacktop, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and Walker, and whose work helped define the American cinematic counterculture.