Synopsis
About Robert James Waller
See more books from this AuthorFor language mavens, there are Waller's trademark meditations on elemental truths, the killing business (``we've cheapened the idea of killing, so that it's everyman's intellectual game,'' contends inscrutably manly Price, who ``know[s] what killing means, and it's an untidy business''), and ``th...
| Read Full Review of Puerto Vallarta SqueezeLighting out for new territory but going badly astray, Waller (Border Music) mixes his usual conceits with the outlines of a thriller. Looking for inspiration and a cheap place to live off his dwindli
Oct 23 1995 | Read Full Review of Puerto Vallarta SqueezeThe ""shooter"" (which is how he is identified for most of the novel) offers Danny $3000 to drive him to the border, and Danny, sniffing material for a book that could remake his name, agrees.
| Read Full Review of Puerto Vallarta SqueezeAnyhow, before you can say ''Pancho Villa,'' the killer has followed Danny and his knockout Mexican girlfriend to a second bar, where he makes Danny a proposition: $5,000 cash for a ride to the U.S. border.
Nov 24 1995 | Read Full Review of Puerto Vallarta SqueezeAn aggregated and normalized score based on 27 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes