Sam Hawken. Serpent’s Tail, $14.95 ISBN 978-1-84668-774-7
Hawken’s debut novel ambitiously confronts a real-life scandal, the many, mostly unsolved murders of women in Ciudad Juárez since the early 1990s, previously tackled by Roberto Bolaño’s sprawling 2666. The two heroes, down-and-out American boxer...
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Sam Hawken. Serpent’s Tail, $14.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-84668-854-6
Despite the uninspired title, Hawken delivers on the promise of his debut, The Dead Women of Juárez, with his outstanding second character-driven crime novel set along the Texas-Mexico border. Having just finished a four-year prison stint for armed...
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Sam Hawken. Serpent%E2%80%99s Tail, $14.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-84668-942-0
This uninspired crime novel from Hawken (Tequila Sunset) hits the right notes but falls short of the standard set by his earlier books, all of which take place along the Texas-Mexico border. Jack Searle, a middle-aged widower, does his best to raise
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Sam Hawken. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-29921-3
Camaro Espinoza, the intense and capable heroine of a series of novellas from Hawken (Camaro Run, etc.), makes her full-length debut in this hard-boiled thriller. A former army medic with two tours in the Middle East, Camaro (whose father was into...
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Sam Hawken. Mulholland, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-316-29926-8
In Hawken’s competent if predicable sequel to 2015’s The Night Charter, former combat medic, martial arts expert, and all-around badass Camaro Espinoza is maintaining a quiet under-the-radar existence in Miami, where she runs a small charter fishing
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Sam Hawken. Mulholland, $26 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-55938-6
Hawken’s kick-ass third Camaro Espinoza thriller (after 2017’s Walk Away) finds the hard-drinking, motorcycle-riding, mixed marital arts enthusiast finally achieving some semblance of existential peace in Miami, Fla., where she runs a charter...
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