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Robbers
Two Texan ex-cons, Ray Bob and Eddie, have just killed a convenience store clerk over a penny. Now, with a pack of cigarettes, a stolen Caddy, and no plan, the two must think fast-and move faster, in this novel with "a lyric voice that sings itself raw."( New York Times Book Review )
"My kind of book." (James Ellroy)
"Cook's plot tumbles from scene to scene with jarring brilliance, the pathos of his characters lending his otherwise brutal world a certain beauty." ( Publishers Weekly )
"Elmore Leonard's laconic flair with the dumb and dangerous [and] James Lee Burke's lyric feel for the dark hearts in a New South-Robbers ranges wild and wide, deep through the heart of Texas." (Michael Malone, author of Time's Witness )
"Cook clearly has the suspense-building gene...The nerve-jangling plot tick-tick-ticks toward its explosive end." ( Texas Monthly )
"High-octane...Cook takes the noir chase novel on some remarkable detours." ( Booklist , starred review)
"This is a terrific book. I haven't enjoyed a novel this much in years." (James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kiss )
"My kind of book." (James Ellroy)
"Cook's plot tumbles from scene to scene with jarring brilliance, the pathos of his characters lending his otherwise brutal world a certain beauty." ( Publishers Weekly )
"Elmore Leonard's laconic flair with the dumb and dangerous [and] James Lee Burke's lyric feel for the dark hearts in a New South-Robbers ranges wild and wide, deep through the heart of Texas." (Michael Malone, author of Time's Witness )
"Cook clearly has the suspense-building gene...The nerve-jangling plot tick-tick-ticks toward its explosive end." ( Texas Monthly )
"High-octane...Cook takes the noir chase novel on some remarkable detours." ( Booklist , starred review)
"This is a terrific book. I haven't enjoyed a novel this much in years." (James Crumley, author of The Last Good Kiss )
368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 2000
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About the author
Christopher Cook
10 booksLibrarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
Christopher Cook is the author of many short stories and the award-winning fiction books "Robbers—Special Edition" and "Screen Door Jesus & Other Stories". His most recent releases are "The Salvage Yard—Collected Stories" and "Tongues of Fire—Novellas & Stories". All are available in both print and e-book editions.
Christopher’s novellas and award-winning short story “The Pickpocket” are also published separately as stand-alone e-books. "The Pickpocket" is available in both English-only and bilingual French-English e-book editions.
A native Texan, since 1994 he has lived in France, Mexico, and the Czech Republic. He currently lives in Prague. His wife is the Czech artist and poet Kateřina Piňosová.
Christopher’s books have been translated for foreign editions in France, Italy, Germany, Japan, and the UK. His stories have been included in numerous anthologies. "Screen Door Jesus" was made into a feature length movie.
Christopher Cook is the author of many short stories and the award-winning fiction books "Robbers—Special Edition" and "Screen Door Jesus & Other Stories". His most recent releases are "The Salvage Yard—Collected Stories" and "Tongues of Fire—Novellas & Stories". All are available in both print and e-book editions.
Christopher’s novellas and award-winning short story “The Pickpocket” are also published separately as stand-alone e-books. "The Pickpocket" is available in both English-only and bilingual French-English e-book editions.
A native Texan, since 1994 he has lived in France, Mexico, and the Czech Republic. He currently lives in Prague. His wife is the Czech artist and poet Kateřina Piňosová.
Christopher’s books have been translated for foreign editions in France, Italy, Germany, Japan, and the UK. His stories have been included in numerous anthologies. "Screen Door Jesus" was made into a feature length movie.
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September 15, 2019
One of those one-hit-wonder authors who delivered brilliance and then disappeared. This has all the anger and atmosphere of No Country For Old Men, mixed with the bittersweet philosophy of James Lee Burke’s Robicheaux series. A wildly violent roadtrip which introduces the best Texas Ranger I’ve yet met, and a trio of ne’er-do-wells, trembling on the edge of redemption. Seek out an old copy: it’s worth the effort.
9/10
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9/10
There are more reviews of (many!) other crime-thrillers over at http://www.murdermayhemandmore.net
April 22, 2022
Robbers is a highly enjoyable read that wears its influences on its sleeve. Talking only about the story itself, it’s a wild and woolly white-trash wet dream of a road-trippin’ deep-fried nightmare. I’d give it five stars just for its pure sleazoid glee. But when the buzz wears off and you look at the actual writing of it, you can easily see Christopher Cook mining the best tricks of some of his (and our) favorite crime writers.
So yeah, the story: Our two hapless drifters, Eddie and Ray Bob, cut a swath of murder and mayhem through Texas, from Austin south to Galveston and up into the piney woods. Eddie starts it when he comes up short by one lousy penny buying cigarettes. So, for no reason in particular, he shoots the clerk. It’s off to the races after that. It becomes immediately clear that Ray Bob is the real engine behind this killing spree, and equally obvious just how suggestible Eddie is. He says of the first killing, “Only reason I even had the gun is 'cuz you give it to me.” That’s pretty much Eddie in a nutshell. He’s not violent or mean by nature, but is a born follower and goes along with pretty much whatever Ray Bob wants to do, whether it’s robbing stores or raping girls (neither of them succeeds at the latter—Eddie thanks to the better angels of his nature, Ray Bob for other reasons entirely).
Of course, you don’t have much of a story without a tall, handsome Texas Ranger to dog their trail. This is where Rule Hooks comes in. (Seriously, that’s his name.) He’s the perfect archetypal lawman, although he looks more like Porter Waggoner than John Wayne. He’s got the whole act down: the smart, incisive cop logic; the grumpy, jaded bachelor outlook; the irritating, sure-of-everything Texan confidence bordering on arrogance. But he’s also got his own problems, estranged from his college-age daughter, screwing another cop’s wife, and growing increasingly aware of the passage of time. He can’t keep his hands off his nuts, always testing their weight, and feeling them grow ever lighter, or so he imagines.
Into this fairly routine cops-and-robbers game stumbles Della. She’s a young single mother, trying to raise two little boys (named Randy and Waylon—again, really!) on a hairdresser’s salary in a crappy part of town. The quickest and best solution to her problems seems to be to hook up with a rich man, and to that end, we meet her as she sits at the bar of the Holiday Inn, hoping to snare just such a big fish. The one she catches turns out to be into bondage, and in a panic, Della stabs him and runs off down the road in her stiletto heels, soon to meet up with Eddie and Ray Bob. A classic love-triangle ensues: Della and Eddie hit it off, Ray Bob is jealous and mad.
So you have some pretty typical elements here, but Cook stirs them up in just such a way that they stay entertaining. Ranger Hooks’s deepening gloom, even as the trail grows hotter, is an interesting character development. And Della and Eddie are both so dumb, they’re always good for a laugh. The chapters told from Della’s perspective are especially funny, as her voice is so unique, full of women’s magazine wisdom and dimwitted half-baked plans. She clearly has a good heart and is only doing the best she knows how, but Cook avoids being overly sentimental with her.
Now we come to the whole name-that-tune kind of thing I mentioned early on. This book almost reads like a pastiche or a parody of crime novels, if you pay attention. The biggest influence is Stephen Hunter’s Dirty White Boys. You got the two criminal maniacs spreading terror through the land, and one of 'em’s even artistic (turns out Eddie can play acoustic blues like nobody’s business). You got the strong, upstanding pillar of law and order, and he’s even having an affair with a coworker’s wife, just like Bud Pewtie did. And you have the alternating, split-screen perspectives of the two as the book goes on. But Hunter isn’t the only ingredient in the pot. Dialogue is handled like Elmore Leonard, choppy and exactly as the character would speak, only without quotation marks like Cormac McCarthy. Natural scenery—a strong point; you feel like you’re in the car riding with the characters—is reminiscent of James Lee Burke. Hell, Leonard and Burke are both name-checked (Hooks likes to read Burke, and goes to a bookstore where the clerk recommends Leonard). There’s even a Sue Grafton-style identity-swap going on (who is Eddie, really?) that stretches plausibility somewhat. Oh yeah, and Della’s last name is Street. Get it?
A couple other things jump out at me as being not quite right. Early on, Eddie and Ray Bob talk about the Y2K bug and how it ended up not happening, setting the book in 2000. Yet Rule has no idea who Steven Tyler or Aerosmith are, and only a vague idea of the Rolling Stones (and he’s not that old). Similarly, Ray Bob (who we assume is in his 20’s like Eddie), baits some black guys in his hometown with a Run-DMC reference that’s at least a decade out of date. Then there’s Eddie and his blues fetish. Exactly how DOES a young guy from a nowhere town in the late twentieth century come by such an appreciation for deep blues? Not saying it couldn’t happen, but there’s a scene in the car where he breaks into an impromptu lecture on music theory, including subdominant chords, that just seems out of character for somebody who barely has two thoughts to rub together. Cook keeps all this under control, and puts all his scholarly “look at me, I been to college” impulses into the character of Bubba Bear, the old hippie bar-owner who hires Eddie. All the brains Cook kept (mostly) locked away writing about dummies come spilling out through Bubba Bear’s babbling mouth, as he talks about philosophy and poetry and God knows what-all. It comes very close to not working, and only the fact that Bubba Bear is a weird old dude anyway allows it to stay between the ditches.
Reading Robbers is a lot like seeing a really good cover band. Highly derivative but totally entertaining. The plot gets a little weird in spots, but Cook’s sense of atmosphere and dialogue and good ol’ trashy fun saves the day.
So yeah, the story: Our two hapless drifters, Eddie and Ray Bob, cut a swath of murder and mayhem through Texas, from Austin south to Galveston and up into the piney woods. Eddie starts it when he comes up short by one lousy penny buying cigarettes. So, for no reason in particular, he shoots the clerk. It’s off to the races after that. It becomes immediately clear that Ray Bob is the real engine behind this killing spree, and equally obvious just how suggestible Eddie is. He says of the first killing, “Only reason I even had the gun is 'cuz you give it to me.” That’s pretty much Eddie in a nutshell. He’s not violent or mean by nature, but is a born follower and goes along with pretty much whatever Ray Bob wants to do, whether it’s robbing stores or raping girls (neither of them succeeds at the latter—Eddie thanks to the better angels of his nature, Ray Bob for other reasons entirely).
Of course, you don’t have much of a story without a tall, handsome Texas Ranger to dog their trail. This is where Rule Hooks comes in. (Seriously, that’s his name.) He’s the perfect archetypal lawman, although he looks more like Porter Waggoner than John Wayne. He’s got the whole act down: the smart, incisive cop logic; the grumpy, jaded bachelor outlook; the irritating, sure-of-everything Texan confidence bordering on arrogance. But he’s also got his own problems, estranged from his college-age daughter, screwing another cop’s wife, and growing increasingly aware of the passage of time. He can’t keep his hands off his nuts, always testing their weight, and feeling them grow ever lighter, or so he imagines.
Into this fairly routine cops-and-robbers game stumbles Della. She’s a young single mother, trying to raise two little boys (named Randy and Waylon—again, really!) on a hairdresser’s salary in a crappy part of town. The quickest and best solution to her problems seems to be to hook up with a rich man, and to that end, we meet her as she sits at the bar of the Holiday Inn, hoping to snare just such a big fish. The one she catches turns out to be into bondage, and in a panic, Della stabs him and runs off down the road in her stiletto heels, soon to meet up with Eddie and Ray Bob. A classic love-triangle ensues: Della and Eddie hit it off, Ray Bob is jealous and mad.
So you have some pretty typical elements here, but Cook stirs them up in just such a way that they stay entertaining. Ranger Hooks’s deepening gloom, even as the trail grows hotter, is an interesting character development. And Della and Eddie are both so dumb, they’re always good for a laugh. The chapters told from Della’s perspective are especially funny, as her voice is so unique, full of women’s magazine wisdom and dimwitted half-baked plans. She clearly has a good heart and is only doing the best she knows how, but Cook avoids being overly sentimental with her.
Now we come to the whole name-that-tune kind of thing I mentioned early on. This book almost reads like a pastiche or a parody of crime novels, if you pay attention. The biggest influence is Stephen Hunter’s Dirty White Boys. You got the two criminal maniacs spreading terror through the land, and one of 'em’s even artistic (turns out Eddie can play acoustic blues like nobody’s business). You got the strong, upstanding pillar of law and order, and he’s even having an affair with a coworker’s wife, just like Bud Pewtie did. And you have the alternating, split-screen perspectives of the two as the book goes on. But Hunter isn’t the only ingredient in the pot. Dialogue is handled like Elmore Leonard, choppy and exactly as the character would speak, only without quotation marks like Cormac McCarthy. Natural scenery—a strong point; you feel like you’re in the car riding with the characters—is reminiscent of James Lee Burke. Hell, Leonard and Burke are both name-checked (Hooks likes to read Burke, and goes to a bookstore where the clerk recommends Leonard). There’s even a Sue Grafton-style identity-swap going on (who is Eddie, really?) that stretches plausibility somewhat. Oh yeah, and Della’s last name is Street. Get it?
A couple other things jump out at me as being not quite right. Early on, Eddie and Ray Bob talk about the Y2K bug and how it ended up not happening, setting the book in 2000. Yet Rule has no idea who Steven Tyler or Aerosmith are, and only a vague idea of the Rolling Stones (and he’s not that old). Similarly, Ray Bob (who we assume is in his 20’s like Eddie), baits some black guys in his hometown with a Run-DMC reference that’s at least a decade out of date. Then there’s Eddie and his blues fetish. Exactly how DOES a young guy from a nowhere town in the late twentieth century come by such an appreciation for deep blues? Not saying it couldn’t happen, but there’s a scene in the car where he breaks into an impromptu lecture on music theory, including subdominant chords, that just seems out of character for somebody who barely has two thoughts to rub together. Cook keeps all this under control, and puts all his scholarly “look at me, I been to college” impulses into the character of Bubba Bear, the old hippie bar-owner who hires Eddie. All the brains Cook kept (mostly) locked away writing about dummies come spilling out through Bubba Bear’s babbling mouth, as he talks about philosophy and poetry and God knows what-all. It comes very close to not working, and only the fact that Bubba Bear is a weird old dude anyway allows it to stay between the ditches.
Reading Robbers is a lot like seeing a really good cover band. Highly derivative but totally entertaining. The plot gets a little weird in spots, but Cook’s sense of atmosphere and dialogue and good ol’ trashy fun saves the day.
September 29, 2022
Very good southern American noir that I bought on release on the basis of the James Ellroy recommendation and recently re-read for the first time for years.
When an author has a character read and enjoy another author I've found that a good guide to their style and influences. Here, a major character reads James Lee Burke.
Robbers is a good multi-strand narrative and generally well paced.
Sometimes the writing was too wordy for my tastes. And it sometimes felt sentimental.
There are some great insights on racism, landscape, settler colonialism and men. (I didn't think the main woman character was as well realised as any of the men.) It is a liberal view of the world I would say.
It's very good and I would recommend it. I'm sorry the author hasn't written much more crime fiction, but I am now interested in checking out what there is.
If you don't like content warnings then, fine, stop here.
It's violent, including sexual violence. It's got a lot of unvarnished racism in it. Also homophobia, misogyny.
When an author has a character read and enjoy another author I've found that a good guide to their style and influences. Here, a major character reads James Lee Burke.
Robbers is a good multi-strand narrative and generally well paced.
Sometimes the writing was too wordy for my tastes. And it sometimes felt sentimental.
There are some great insights on racism, landscape, settler colonialism and men. (I didn't think the main woman character was as well realised as any of the men.) It is a liberal view of the world I would say.
It's very good and I would recommend it. I'm sorry the author hasn't written much more crime fiction, but I am now interested in checking out what there is.
If you don't like content warnings then, fine, stop here.
It's violent, including sexual violence. It's got a lot of unvarnished racism in it. Also homophobia, misogyny.
November 1, 2018
Christopher Cook - Robbers
Ray Bob e Eddie sono due psicopatici criminali, sembrano due scemi e forse lo sono veramente. Si sono conosciuti da poco e stanno scappando da qualche parte. Lasciano una numero ragguardevole di cadaveri ovunque passano. Uccidono per stupidità e per fatti insignificanti, un esempio è la morte del commesso di un negozio che pretende giustamente il centesimo che manca per l'acquisto delle sigarette, siccome Eddi non ce l'ha, gli spara. Ogni situazione diventa una scena del crimine senza un motivo. I due svalvolati non sanno nemmeno dove stanno andando con la loro Cadillac Eldorado decapottabile, vagano per le strade del Texas fino ad incontrare Della, una ragazza madre problematica tanto quanto i due assassini, che diventerà una loro compagna di viaggio, e sarà motivo di disputa tra i due. A dare la caccia a questi personaggi, c'è un texas ranger con più problemi di loro e con lo stesso grado di scaltrezza. Quando il rapporto tra Della e Eddie sembra salire di livello, Ray Bob non fa il terzo incomodo e leva le tende con rancore verso il compagno. A questo punto, la vita dei tre sembra tranquillizzarsi ed assumere una parvenza di normalità. L'epilogo però è vicino, il Ranger trova Ray Bob e Ray Bob ritrova Eddie.
Direi che la parola giusta per definire questo libro è grottesco. I personaggi sono appena sufficientemente caratterizzati, nonostante l'imprevedibilità dei personaggi, la trama risulta lenta, il Ranger è imbarazzante per quanto ottuso. Forse ha già deciso che la sua vita non è quello che vorrebbe e vive nell'apatia. Ho dovuto sgobbare parecchio per arrivare alla fine di questa lettura, mai un colpo di scena, piatto, soporifero, barboso.
05/12/2016
Ray Bob e Eddie sono due psicopatici criminali, sembrano due scemi e forse lo sono veramente. Si sono conosciuti da poco e stanno scappando da qualche parte. Lasciano una numero ragguardevole di cadaveri ovunque passano. Uccidono per stupidità e per fatti insignificanti, un esempio è la morte del commesso di un negozio che pretende giustamente il centesimo che manca per l'acquisto delle sigarette, siccome Eddi non ce l'ha, gli spara. Ogni situazione diventa una scena del crimine senza un motivo. I due svalvolati non sanno nemmeno dove stanno andando con la loro Cadillac Eldorado decapottabile, vagano per le strade del Texas fino ad incontrare Della, una ragazza madre problematica tanto quanto i due assassini, che diventerà una loro compagna di viaggio, e sarà motivo di disputa tra i due. A dare la caccia a questi personaggi, c'è un texas ranger con più problemi di loro e con lo stesso grado di scaltrezza. Quando il rapporto tra Della e Eddie sembra salire di livello, Ray Bob non fa il terzo incomodo e leva le tende con rancore verso il compagno. A questo punto, la vita dei tre sembra tranquillizzarsi ed assumere una parvenza di normalità. L'epilogo però è vicino, il Ranger trova Ray Bob e Ray Bob ritrova Eddie.
Direi che la parola giusta per definire questo libro è grottesco. I personaggi sono appena sufficientemente caratterizzati, nonostante l'imprevedibilità dei personaggi, la trama risulta lenta, il Ranger è imbarazzante per quanto ottuso. Forse ha già deciso che la sua vita non è quello che vorrebbe e vive nell'apatia. Ho dovuto sgobbare parecchio per arrivare alla fine di questa lettura, mai un colpo di scena, piatto, soporifero, barboso.
05/12/2016
January 14, 2021
A highly readable page-turner.
Now, to be fair, I should point out that I know Christopher, known him for a while, and it seemed time to read perhaps his most well-known book. I was thinking about whether to give it four or five stars and decided to round up because Christopher is a hell of a guy and because I truly was shocked/surprised by a couple of scenes. And I say scenes because the book is cinematic in scope and would make a great movie.
It kind of reminds me of Cormac McCarthy, and not only due to dialogue without quotations, but with the well-defined characters from the dregs of society. I also have to admit it made me seek out some Porter Wagoner music! :)
So well done. Time to read some more vintage "Cook"!
Now, to be fair, I should point out that I know Christopher, known him for a while, and it seemed time to read perhaps his most well-known book. I was thinking about whether to give it four or five stars and decided to round up because Christopher is a hell of a guy and because I truly was shocked/surprised by a couple of scenes. And I say scenes because the book is cinematic in scope and would make a great movie.
It kind of reminds me of Cormac McCarthy, and not only due to dialogue without quotations, but with the well-defined characters from the dregs of society. I also have to admit it made me seek out some Porter Wagoner music! :)
So well done. Time to read some more vintage "Cook"!
October 20, 2024
Difficult to get into given distraction caused by the lack of quotation marks but that dissipated by ch 6. Good read. Descriptions of sights nd smells were creative, powerful and effective. By the end, I was sympathizing with and rooting for all the main characters - good guys and bad guys!
December 5, 2016
5/10 - Some great action and prose. Started dragging for me halfway through. Could have left off some of the scenes and been a little less verbose in parts.
December 26, 2018
From Giorgio. Terrible language.
September 13, 2020
Cook has given us a rousing crime novel located in my backyard, Southeast Texas. Opening in my favorite city of Austin, it follows the road mayhem of two criminals of unlikely companions. They pick up a woman hitchhiker and mother as naive innocent who may have also murdered. They travel down to the coastal plains, onto Galveston and into the East Texas Big Thicket. Chasing the odd trio, a Texas Ranger with his own frustrations and complications. Of course, murder and violence marks the trail as the trio wanders down to the Gulf, up to the piney woods and finally back to the airy beach environs. The characters develop consistently thru the novel and provide a rich look at people most of us around here have met, one way or another. Realism, shock, humor and even sympathy feelings are evident in the author's skillful development. Being from the region myself, I was impressed with his descriptions of people, places, and music of the many characters crossing the paths of the main characters. Cook even treats us to some of his own philosophy via a bar and music venue owner who provides commentary on the world around them.
Cook gives us a classic here. I could not put it down. Satisfying to the last sentence.
Cook gives us a classic here. I could not put it down. Satisfying to the last sentence.
October 2, 2020
A good example of exciting and horrid adventures -- a road trip with tragic consequences -- not for the faint of heart -- it feints and then really punches
February 14, 2021
dark, recommended
April 8, 2022
Not a fan, anything with an animal being killed is the worst. The writing style was odd. Plot moved along well but don’t think I will read anything else by this author.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 24, 2009
This one really surprised me! I really don't go for the popular, graphic, mindless killing novels like Cromwells and Patersons but this one grabbed me (not that it's mindless)! The guy was a socio-path but he sure had an appreciation for nature, and Cook writes well enough to get the message across. While killer Ray Bob is off in the woods tracking the Texas Ranger:
"A yellowbellied sapsucker swept through the clearing, lit on a honey locust, began its rat-tat-tat forage in the bark. The sharp insistent thumping echoed through the thicket. Otherwise, quiet. Ray Bob closed his eyes, inhaled the sweet aroma of the damp woods, the sweet honeysuckled air. He never felt so at ease as here, cloistered with the heaving earth, the deep green whispering forest, near surging waters collected in the fertile embrace, far beyond others of his species."
Also had a real life ending... read it and find out!
"A yellowbellied sapsucker swept through the clearing, lit on a honey locust, began its rat-tat-tat forage in the bark. The sharp insistent thumping echoed through the thicket. Otherwise, quiet. Ray Bob closed his eyes, inhaled the sweet aroma of the damp woods, the sweet honeysuckled air. He never felt so at ease as here, cloistered with the heaving earth, the deep green whispering forest, near surging waters collected in the fertile embrace, far beyond others of his species."
Also had a real life ending... read it and find out!
May 7, 2008
The blurb on the back of this advance compared Cook to James Lee Burke and Elmore Leonard. That's pretty high praise for a first novel. It was a pretty good first novel (that's my blurb.) The line between "good guys" and "bad guys" was pretty much indistinguishable. There was a couple of pretty good twists near the end, but I got anxious to finish the book, because so many people were being killed off.
October 20, 2016
Gently mix some vintage Elmore Leonard plotting, a touch of Carl Hiaasen's quirky characterization and a lyric Texas setting and you have Christopher Cook's highly readable book.
Ray Bob and Eddie rob a convenience store after shooting the clerk in a dispute over a penny and then begin a bloody rampage across Texas, pursued by an aging Ranger and his dog, Lefty.
It's a high-speed read with some human twists that make it more than enjoyable -- and quite worthwhile.
Ray Bob and Eddie rob a convenience store after shooting the clerk in a dispute over a penny and then begin a bloody rampage across Texas, pursued by an aging Ranger and his dog, Lefty.
It's a high-speed read with some human twists that make it more than enjoyable -- and quite worthwhile.
January 1, 2017
A complete and awesome work of pure pulp fiction. Robbers tells the tale of two outlaws running from the law and leaving a trail of death and destruction in their rearview mirror.
It's a lovely mix of violence and superb dialogue. It flows beautifully and you won't stop rooting for the bad guys.
It's like a Quentin Tarantino film, in a book. Read it.
It's a lovely mix of violence and superb dialogue. It flows beautifully and you won't stop rooting for the bad guys.
It's like a Quentin Tarantino film, in a book. Read it.
May 11, 2015
Christopher cook is by far the best author ever. I could not put this book down. The entire book is filled with action and suspense, with a little bit of humor. If I find another Christopher Cook book, I will definitely pick it up
July 5, 2015
Conseil de mon libraire, pas enchanté par cette lecture, néanmoins c'est propre. Les personnages sont corrects, l'intrigue simple avance de manière classique. C'est pas "de sang froid", le style particulier de format est plaisant. Content d'en avoir fini quand même...
March 28, 2015
Absolut lesenswert und wortgewaltig!
January 1, 2016
James Ellroy meets Elmore Leonard, but without both sets of annoying tics.
Want to read
February 7, 2009Reviewed in American Libraries 12.2008 "Rousing Reads" by Bill Ott.
May 26, 2009
traditional wild west outlaws still roam through texas
May 19, 2010
RATING: 3.75
October 19, 2015
Violence abounds!
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