I received a signed copy from a Goodreads giveaway, and I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I would call it a dark adventure into the lives of a married couple that is both disturbing and moving. If you ever wanted to venture down that dark alley looking for thrills, Trent Zelazny is a great tour guide. The story is quickly set into motion with a cowboy hat, a dead guy, a steamer trunk, and a rag doll---I could not wait to figure out how these fit together. The tension I felt with each characters' More...

What would you do if you found a hat with a bullet hole in it? Run? Call the cops? Get back in your car and drive away?

Not Carson Halliday.

He follows his nose out into the New Mexico desert and finds a body. Then he gets shot at. Time to go, wouldn’t you think? But no, he then finds a trunk in the back of a car, which he decides to keep. Bad idea.

Making bad decisions seem to be Carson’s forté - he’s capable of some very wrong-headed thinking and never seems quite certain what he’s doing next. Th More...

Trent Zelazny writes dark, and that's okay with me. As a matter of fact, when I finished the last page of "Too Late to Call Texas," I sat there and wept for a good long while. And it wasn't one of those sweet, dab-your-eyes-with-a-hanky cries either. It was good, hard sobs, snot and sorrow. Still, I can honestly say I enjoyed reading every word.

Trent dredges up those rock-bottom moments in life that bring us all to our knees, then he pours emotional salt into the wounds until all a person can d More...

*** Macbeth Meets Tarentino ***

What? Likening this upstart’s work to Shakespeare and Tarentino? Has the reviewer lost his mind? Those are two separate questions, to which I answer: 1) Yep, and: 2) …well, yes, but not in relation to Too Late To Call Texas.

I’m not a spoiler-type reviewer, so I won’t give many details, but just let me say this: Not since Jack Bauer have so many characters been in so much danger. The body count is high, the feel-good quotient low. But this is what Zelazny seems to More...

I've read quite a bit of Trent's stuff, and thoroughly enjoyed it. But THIS . . . The depth, the maturity, and the self assurance of total authority. Emotionally both raw and resonant, with a spare barebones laconicism that will have you doing a double take more than once. This story howls along like a freight train blasting past Folsom Prison at midnight, with the convicts wide awake in their bunks and staring at the ceiling as they listen.

This is on a par with Cormac MacCarthy and Joe Lansdale More...

Trent Zelazny never ceases to amaze me with the style and finesse with which he presents his stories. Too Late to Call Texas is no exception. It's quite a bit different from his other works, but still done in such a way that keeps you turning the pages.

Carson Halliday is a troubled soul and his plight doesn't really ever look up from there. "If only he hadn't found the hat. Or the dead guy. Or the steamer trunk. Or the rag doll. If only he hadn't found any of these things, everything might have More...

I tore through Too Late To Call Texas in a night because I had to see how it ended, and found the story ties together the poetic melancholy which I am starting to consider Trent Zelazny's hallmark and some almost Tarantino-style action. This story is exciting and gloriously bloody with a cast of perfectly realistic characters, each with their own "If only...," and a high body count. No one is safe.

I quite enjoyed this one.

An Interview with Trent Zelazny http://www.examiner.com/article/too-l...