I’m sorry I didn’t like this more. It just couldn’t compare to his other works, though I did find the noirish/hardboiled aspect of this interesting – reminded me of Jim Thompson a bit. Alas, I cared much more for the character Moss than I did for anyone else, and his death was so premature as to render the last few sections of the book completely uninteresting. It seemed unfocused, unstructured, meandering… lacked the clarity of vision and intensely honed language of the border trilogy.