7/6/2023 0 Comments Borderline by lawrence blockInstead, the writer uses the border as a metaphor for moving from a world of laws into “anything goes” lawlessness. In those days, before the demands to “build the dang fence,” the act of crossing country borderlines wasn’t that big a deal. Set in the early sixties, the book follows a quartet of aimless Americans as they cross the line ‘tween El Paso and Juarez, moving across the border for “excitement,” which they get in spades.īlock, working under his pulp paperback pseudonym Don Holliday, was not writing a tome about immigration at the time. southern border so much in the news these days, Hard Case Crime’s reissue of Lawrence Block’s 1962 pulp novel Borderline would definitely seem to be riding the zeitgeist.
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