About this item
Shortlisted for the Golden Dagger Award 2013.Praise for Tequila Sunset:"Haunting . . . recalls the best of James M. Cain."—The Financial Times"A fascinating, tense, and engaging read that draws you into the lives of the characters with consummate ease until you reluctantly turn that final page."—CrimesquadPraise for The Dead Women of Juárez:"A beautiful, compassionate, gruelling novel, as ferocious to read as it is soul-wrenching. . . . This book will haunt you for a long, long time."—Ken Bruen"[The] book roars into gear as a bluntly forceful hard-boiled thriller that also manages to address, movingly and respectfully, it's troubling subject matter."—Publishers WeeklyEl Paso, Texas. Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.Two cities. Different sides of the border.
About the Author
Sam Hawken is the best-selling and Crime Writers' Association Dagger-nominated author of the Camaro Espinoza thriller series, and the critically acclaimed Borderlands Trilogy.
He makes his home in Maryland with his wife and son.
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"Hawken's understated but razor sharp prose never gets in the way of the building tension ... Powerful stuff." - Booklist
"Camaro Espinoza [is] an intense and capable heroine [with] an ironclad sense of justice. Hawken delivers a potent climax that winds its way through an unremitting firefight to a satisfying conclusion." - Publishers Weekly
"[The Dead Women of Juarez is] a beautiful, compassionate, grueling novel, as ferocious to read as it is soul-wrenching ... This book will haunt you for a long, long time." - Ken Bruen
"Hard-boiled action ... Camaro Espinoza, who did tours in the Middle East, is tougher than an army boot ... .it's deeply satisfying." - The New York Times
"Camaro is solitary, vengeful, and fond of beer and motorcycles - a female "tough guy" who defies stereotypes with engaging bravado. Hawken calls her 'a lean, mean thrilling machine.' He's nailed it." - Booklist
"Hawken doesn't hit a false note." - Publishers Weekly
"Hawken's words will keep you hooked until the very last sentence." - New York Journal of Books
