Marty is a lone-wolf gambler who lives in the twin cities’ many shadows Meg is a bored Chicagoite divorcee looking to live again after a loveless marriage Lily is a beautiful blonde hitchhiker, looking for thrills and drugs and sex and willing to pay to get what she needs Weaver is a madman with a straight razor in his pocket, living out his own twisted fantasies generated by his obsession with violent horror comics. It’s a portrait of various noir-type characters living in the steamy, sleazy underbelly of society, the borderline between El Paso and Juarez. The main entry here is the short novel Border Lust, published in 1962 by Nightstand Books under the pseudonym Don Holliday. Hard Case Crime 115 – 2014 – cover by Michael Koelsch.
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