5 comments about Repair Manual: Cadillac 1967 to 1989 : All U.S. and Canadain Models of Deville, Eldorado, Fleetwood, Seville, Commercial Chassis, Including Diesel and V8-6-4engines.

1. I had a problem with the idle speed on my car, so I bought this book to fix this problem myself. This book was very detailed to help me find my problem. My problem was electrical in nature, and this book instructed me how to do a self-diagnostic. I performed a self-diagnostic and found out the particlular electrical code which was causing my problems. Good. But this book did not tell me which part needed to be replaced in order to fix the problem. I assumed I had to replace the ECM, so I looked it up, and this book told me how to fix and replace everything related to the fuel system except how to replace the ECM. So, now I'm back to square one. In trying to learn more about the electrical workings of the car, I tried to read about all the different systems which proved to be a difficult task because this book scatters information about particular elecrical systems throughout various sections of various chapters making the learning of these electrical systems a task as difficult as fixing most problems on my car.



2. I have a problemm with light inside my Cadillac Fleetwood Broham 1993 and signalling into left door.



3. I have a problemm with light inside my Cadillac Fleetwood Broham 1993 and signalling into left door.



4. With all of the fraud and mis-representation that occurs over the internet these days, it was difficult to believe that I would receive a product that would be worthy of great merit. The Repair Manual that I received was not only in excellent condition, but was just what I wanted. Thank you for selling credible and reliable products with such a fine company as Amazon.



5. My elderly dad just gave me his 1975 Eldorado, but he wouldn't give up his Chilton's Repair Manual for me to have! I had to buy my own and was pleased to find it available at Amazon.com. It's an easy to understand manual even for a woman with not much knowledge about her new (old) car, but I'm learning!

1 comments about General Motors Cadillac DeVille (1994 thru 2005) Cadillac Seville (1992 thru 2004) (Haynes Repair Manual).

1. The manual should apply to the specific year and model, not multiple years with interlaced pictures of each. Needs a larger more complete schematic. I experienced an electrical problem, but could not track it down with current schematic.

3 comments about Long Black Cadillac.

1. Tortuga has give us 4 very appealing characters in this vampire tale which is quite different from the usual. We have Vance, an ex-military man with a dark past now hunting vampires for a living. His latest target is Clay, a vampire hunk with a long black cadillac, who quickly turns the table on him. Then there is Remy, an endearing Cajun who looks after Clay, and being human he has his advantage during the day. They started off as a threesome and here I do feel for Remy as he is somewhat neglected by Clay. Then along comes Gryphon an ancient vampire who claims Remy for his own. The sex is of course steamy and hot, with all the blood, animalistic and sensual bites. The plot is one roller coaster ride as this threesome who were hunted turned into a foursome on a vengence. There are some wild and wonderfully crazy moments and you just have to love the hearse (chuckle). The plot could have delved deeper into Vance's past, both vampire's background and the reasons behind the vampires' hunt and the ending parts are somewhat rushed. But as a M/M romance, the chemistry and interaction among the four guys makes this one sensual and enjoyable erotica.



2. The last tale of B.A. Tortuga is a vamp tale. An old vamp tale to the rhythm of blues. You can feel it bit in every words and it's a crazy rhythm.
   
   Vance is a scarred ex cop who now works for a man known as Colonel. He hunts vampires. He receives orders and goes on mission. He is not particular fond of vampires but neither hates them. It's only his work. Then he meets Clay, a vampire like no other he has met before. He feels a powerful attraction for this man. And Clay seems incapable to stop biting him and makin love to him. And he is not adverse to the idea.
   
   And then there is Remy, a sweet little Cajun man who has always cared for Clay, cause Clay is family. And now that Clay has met his mate, Remy is a little bit sad, not angry, is not in his nature... but maybe Gryphon, another vampire, much older than Clay, can make him feel better, a lot better.
   
   Till the mid of the book, I feel partial for Remy and in second stance for Vance. They are very different, but very lovely both. Vance is a wounded man that has not finished to believe in justice. He is angry to the world, but he is still a good boy. And he works only for the Goods. Instead Remy is a little hot thing, all sweet and caring; he has not an ounce of malice in his body, maybe he is a little wicked, but in the good meaning of the word. He only has yet to find his soul mate and until that moment, he can be a good buddy for Clay.
   
   Clay is the good boy. Only he is a vampire. He is so good, I can find nothing wrong in him. But I'm not so fond for good boy. So maybe this is the reason why I cheer up when Gryphon makes his appearance. He is a real man... ops vampire. He is strong and protective, he takes what he wants and now he wants Remy.
   
   So in the end the supporting characters, Remy and Gryphon, steal the scene to the main characters, Vance and Clay. And all of them contribute to create a fast paced story, full (as always in the B.A. Tortuga's story) of hot sex, that is not never a bad thing.



3. after getting used to tortuga's style of writing it turned out to be a book that i've already read twice! i absolutely love it! the main characters are great and secondary characters shore them up to perfection! this book deserves a sequel if nothing else than to tell us what's going on in Gryph's and Remy's lives!

5 comments about Standard Catalog Of Cadillac 1903-2005, 3RD EDITION.

1. Assisted by my wife, I've been the editor of LaCad, the Cadillac LaSalle Club of Australia's magazine for three years, and we've used the Standard Catalog of Cadillac as our reference for those three years. This issue tops the last issue by the inclusion of colour and even more photos.
   
   Thanks to John Gunnell for this 'bible' of Cadillacs.



2. Better illustrated than the previous two editions, but there are a remarkable number of errors in the picture captions pertaining to year and model descriptions. Anyone using this as a "last word" reference had better look elsewhere.



3. If you really like to read this is a great book. If you like Tables of Standards and lots of model pictures, you will be disappointed. The general organization can be quite different for model to model even if only a year of difference. You may find the item comparison at the first of one model and at the end of the next model. Forget it if you are a research scanner and want to compare the same item from introduction on. You are going to read a lot of words to find out what you want to know. It saving grace is that there is a lot of good detailed information.



4. it was the only book to have the knowledge and details for his 1938 caddy.
   he's got 417 of 475 made and needed specific details that made his car special.



5. If you liked the 2nd Editon of the Standard Catalog of Cadillac, you'll undoubtedly be disappointed in this edition. This edition trades LaSalle information and price guide for a few more color photos of Cadillacs. While the LaSalle price guide is gone completely, the Cadillac price guide is unbelievably incomplete, leaving out pricing for 1921 through 1925, 1927-28, 1931 through 1935,38, 1940,46, 47,1950,51,52,1954 through 1958,1960through 1962 - and more. This edition leaves a lot to be desired for the true Cadillac/LaSalle aficionado.

2 comments about So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?: Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reform (2nd Edition).

1. This work brings into the light the hardships that women on welfare endure. It does women on welfare justice that this work was published. The author was very thorough in her research, and brought out many things about our welfare system that I was unware of. I would definitely recommend this book to other people. It's a must read!



2. Finally, a book that discusses the subject of poverty, welfare dependency and our economic system by using the plain, spoken English language. Gone are the doctorial essays on social stratification, mind-numbing research statistics, and twenty letter words. This book provides a superb overview of the subject without it being too elementary. She uses renown experts on the subject, and than paraphrases/summarizes their conclusions in easy to understand language. As a teacher of poverty at a community college, it was a welcome relief to assign readings from this book because the students were able to grasp the subject so much better than with textbooks written for people already having a good foundation in economics, sociology and scientific inquiry. Thank you Karen Seccombe for telling it like it is, and doing it in language that most can understand.

2 comments about Cadillac: The Tailfin Years.

1. The Tailfin - the relic of the fifties and what was cool during those years. "Cadillac: The Tailfin Years" is a coffee table book of photography for those who don't want to accept that time has passed and still find the tailfins cool. Filled cover to cover with full color photos and countless information on each of the models of Cadillac's during that era, it is the ideal gift for lovers of old vehicles, making "Cadillac: The Tailfin Years" highly recommended to community library photography and automotive history collections.



2. Sigh... I love old cadillacs and was looking for some useful information. There is nothing new here. Book is a reprint of old factory sales brochure and advertisement illustrations, which are available for free on the internet already. The prose is no better, just a copy and paste of what's in the brochures. Reprinting the brochures verbatim would have kept the context at least and made this book more interesting... there is absolutely no record of any kind of the reaction or response these cars received over the last 50 years and no photos of actual cars... no information on what they were like to drive, the mechanicals, the frames, the transmissions, the engines, the horsepower, anything technical.
   
   For a better book of this kind look for "the complete catalog" or better still "80 years of cadillac." A good cadillac book on the par with books about Chevy, Ford, Ferrarri, etc. has yet to be published. How can the author even call this a book or call himself an author? He supposedly owns a 1955 cadillac and has met with other cadillac owners, where is the information from this?
   
   The other reviewer is a librarian and gives all her reviews five stars.

5 comments about Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Stories of Twelve Southern Women.

1. The Italians have a word for it: "sprezzatura," meaning "the art of effortless mastery." Michael Malone, North Carolina's twenty-first century Prospero has exactly this kind of prestidigitator's touch with the short story form. His collection entitled: "Red Clay, Blue Cadillac" has a natural flow which makes reading it pleasurably easy. Proof of his legerdemain? Presto! Two of these stories garnered national prizes: "Stella, Red Clay" won the Edgar Allen Poe award and "Meredith: Fast Love" the O.Henry laurel.

   A notoriously difficult literary form, the short story usually entails a five point structure: 1. situation 2. generating circumstances 3. rising action 4. climax and 5. denouement. Such literary strictures apparently pose no hardship for Malone who, while maintaining his necromancer's panache with narrative, never loses his inventive prowess. His humor and command of southern speak shine. Here, the novelist presents the reader with a dozen distillate vignettes, every conception dazzlingly real.

   Each story bears a woman's name and there are as many types as stories: the omnipotent femme fatale, the psychologically abused wife, the easy sexpot, a feisty and unsinkable old African-American... to name only a quarter ot the total. Malone doesn't limit his magician's sleight of hand to the distaff side either; there are fascinating guys too: a good ole boy hunter type personifying bumpkinhood, a clueless, abusive husband, a slick upper class lawyer, and a harried sports manager. These lists omit many memorable minor characters.

   I was delighted when Malone's sleuthing duo, police chief Cuddy Mangum and chief detective Justin Savile whom we know from "Time's Witness" and "Civil Seasons" showed up in the seventh story: "Patty: Love and Other Crimes." A Cahner's Business Information, Inc. critic called this story, "pedestrian." I found it anything but. "Patty" fits the classic pattern snugly; plus it has an ingenious plot, insight into the human psyche, really funny dialogue, and enough twists and surprises to keep the reader happily engaged. Loving Savile, as I do, I was disappointed that Cuddy has more hilarious conversations with "Bubba Percy, the star (in his opinion) reporter for the Hillston Star," than he does with his chief detective.

   I always envy those who have yet to succumb to the enchantment of a Malone book for the first time. My initial reading brought Robert Louis Stevenson's appreciative lines to mind: "The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be happy as kings." Malone's version of the new south is on target and fits this quotation. I'll betcha it'll prove even more rewarding the second time around.

   Postscript: When reading a work so full and varied, surely, one must wonder about the inscrutable interior stratagems involved in the creative process. In the fourth story "Charmain: White Trash Noir" there are four words which may hold subtle clues to the internal windmills turning inside the learned, labyrinthine mind of Michael Malone. Tenuous intimations to be sure, but ones too plain to be coincidence. Charmain's patrician young lawyer's name is Tilden Snow and his ancestral home is called "Heaven's Hill." These phrases may jangle, even fibrillate your mindsprings if you have read "The Last Noel," Malone's novel which begins as a rare southern snow is falling. It's memorable heroine's name is Noelle Katherine Tilden and her old southern mansion is known as Heaven's Hill. Mysterioso!




2. Mr. Malone, I wish you would stick with Cuddy and Justin as they are your finest, in my opinion. The very best story here is Maddie and I wish you had developed her into a full length book. That story was greeeeat. A good mystery, good historical stuff and a good twist in the end although I think I saw it coming. I cannot get enough of Cuddy and Justin so please carry them on into the future. Please????



3. Although I'm not prone to reading short stories, anything by author Michael Malone is usually priceless. This collection is no exception. A terrific concept is this, the grouping of Malone's fictional observations of a dozen Southern women, as diverse a group as the real tapestry of women in the south.

   Led by Malone's award-winning "Stella, Red Clay" - which is more of a look into the relationship between a father and son, both of whom admire ex-Hollywood star Stella, from a distance, this story was worth the price of the book and definitely deserved the two national awards it garnered. In the collection, about 7 of the pieces are well-developed, and the rest fall a little short of the artistry you've come to expect from Malone's novels. My personal favorite was the look into the soul of a battered woman in "Charmain, White Trash Noir" - Malone perfectly captures the lack of self-esteem, yet the ladylike manner a real Charmain would display when confronted with the dilemma of airing her marital dirty laundry in order to save herself from a conviction.

   I granted 4 instead of 5 stars because I particularly disliked the snapshot of Malone's "Justin-Cuddy" series...all about a local deb in Hillston (Patty, Love & Other Crimes). It definitely did not do the series justice.

   From the creation of the concept, the cleverness of the cover in the oversize paperback, the ebb and flow of Malone's poetry written as prose, you'll enjoy this collection. And, if you do, be sure to gather Malone's other gems, his novels, which are amazing!




4. I tend to shy away from short stories, but this one is making me reconsider my habit. Michael Malone's red clay, blue cadillac has twelve short stories, and each features a headstrong woman whose story seem to be totally unrelated to the others at the surface. However, more than one woman end up killing their husbands, and in these stories, a good portion of the story explains why she did it, and you will probably sympathize with her! Malone has that writing talent to do so.
   
   One of my favorite stories is "Charmain," one of the many in this book who kill her husband. She is in court and you might think that she was stupid to kill, but after she relates (but not to the court) just how much of a jerk her husband Kyle was, I sided with her.
   
   I loved how in the stories, the narrator is usually a man that is somehow connected to the woman, either as a former/current love interest or a colleague. I have read few stories with that interesting perspective, and I love reading in this new light. The third person narrator is often too distant and the first person narrator (with the first person being the main character, I mean) is good but too common.
   
   Malone also is from the South. So am I, and I love his quips about the lazy Southern life. Example: He briefly comments how it's hard to get the Times paper down here. He hints at the idyllic lifestyle we Southerners have to those who are not familiar with it and also to those who live the lifestyle but often do not realize it (while reading this book I realized just how slow it really can be in Georgia). Malone, with his style of writing, made me embrace my Southern heritage because it's so different from the rest of the United States, especially the North (he contrasts the North and South sometimes, which did make me feel grateful for some aspects of the South).
   
   Not everyone's husbands die. Some end up married happily ever after. Others are not married. One woman got married five times. There are so many different women in red clay, blue cadillac. I will admit, some of the stories are okay at best but as a whole, the intriguing stories come together for a fabulous read. I read very few Southern authors' works, and after reading this work, I'm definitely considering reading more! That, and short stories.



5. The first tale, Stella: Red Clay, is perhaps the best in the book, following the decades-long obsession of a boy and his father, Buddy and Clayton Hayes, with a B film starlet, Stella Dora Doyle, who marries well and then murders her husband, only to get off because of some legal maneuvering. Years later, after the father, who was a high school classmate of the starlet, dies, the son meets up with the actress- Stella- and discovers the truth behind the murder. It is a well-structured tale, and uses the soap opera machinations inherent in its telling to great effect. Also, the fades in and out to different time periods works well. It won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1997, from the Mystery Writers Of America, and appears in Best Mystery Stories Of The Century.
   
   Marie: Blue Cadillac, originally published in Playboy, does not work nearly so well, as it follows Marie, its blond titular character, and her obsession with Elvis Presley play out as she seduces swindles a gullible would-be suitor: Braxton Cox, who is heading home to Memphis in his Mustang for Thanksgiving. Precious: Winners And Losers follows a divorcee who is troubled over his ex-wife's pending remarriage. Charmain: White Trash Noir is another murder tale that starts off in media res, but is not as good as the first one. It follows a woman who offs her college basketball star husband, and gets sentenced to some time, even though the shooting was really an accident. While the character study of Charmain is strong, the rest of the tale is rather sparsely detailed, and not particularly interesting, as well as too long. Malone does a good job rendering the lead's character and lack of self-esteem. The realistic question of whether Charmain will air her marriage's dirty laundry to save herself from a conviction is what gives the tale a nice tension that lesser tales lack.
   
   Lucy: Maniac Loose follows the lead character after she confronts her dead husband's lover, and attempting to psychically screw her. The lover ends up dying, and Lucy strolls naked through town. Do not be thrown by this description- it's a very good tale. The ending, where Lucy is on trial the same day as a man who shot his wife, who is the maniac of the title, is quite strong:
   
   
   Testifying over his lawyer's protest that he'd tried to kill his wife and her lover but had `just messed it up', the maniac pleaded guilty. So did Lucy. She admitted she was creating as much of a public disturbance as she could. But unlike the maniac's, her sentence was suspended, and afterwards the whole charge was erased from the record....A few months later, Lucy went to visit the maniac at the state penitentiary. She brought him a huge box of presents from the going-out-of-business sale at The Fun House. They talked for a while, but conversation wasn't easy, despite the fact that Lucy not only felt they had a great deal in common, but that she could have taught him a lot about getting away with murder.
   
   Flonnie: The Rise Of The South And Flonnie Rogers details the life of a bitchy old black woman that might be best described as Miss Jane Pittman with a `tude. It is slight, with some humor, but fairly forgettable. Patty: Love And Other Crimes, at forty-eight pages, is far too long, and another murder tale that is a shadow of the first two. A good five pages is wasted on describing the titular character's past husbands, very little of which is relevant to the tale. Meredith: Fast Love is a simple little romance, as a bumpkin falls for the first woman jogger he has ever seen. It won an O. Henry Award. Angie: The Power is a solid story following a small town clique's obsession with pro baseball and murder theories regarding Marilyn Monroe. Mona: Miss Mona's Bank describes an old woman's talking two bank robbers out of their crime. Betty: A Deer On The Lawn is a rather soulless tale of a woman who gets her wish in getting out of her loveless marriage when her husband dies. Mattie: An Invitation To The Ball is another overly long tale of murder- probably the least affecting tale in the book.
   
   Overall, the book is a sturdy collection, although not particularly quotable. It is not a poetic prose, and not likely to cling to someone's bosom the way many other writers' words do. In a sense, Malone's prose, if a car, is a serviceable beater- not particularly memorable, nor pleasing to look at, but it accomplishes what it sets out to do more often than not, and that is entertain. Does it enlighten? No, no more than most soap operas do. But, there is something refreshing in the best of his unpretentious tales. Perhaps it is called enjoyment?

1 comments about More Than a Pink Cadillac: Mary Kay Inc.'s 9 Leadership Keys to Success.

1. This is a well written book by an author who took a liking to the MK company. Although it provided good information about inside the company and its values, but for some reason I kept finding my mind wondering. It's a good read if you want to find out a little about the Mk company, MaryKays values and why her company is successful. I would recommend it!

5 comments about GM Cadillac 1967-89 (Chilton's Total Car Care Repair Manual).

1. This book was very helpful to me because it helped me fix my own ca



2. I'm loking forward to reading and getting plenty of know how from this book. I've been looking everywhere for a book on my year's model which is an '89 Sedan deVille. I also have a '78 Ford Fairmont station wagon.



3. This is a very informative book, but if you are looking for something specific on a given model, you may be out of luck. In fact, I got the Haynes manual from the library, which covers less models and years, and that still didn't mention the vacuum pump for an 86 Sedan De Ville, which is the part that I need to replace. I guess I'll just wing it. Neither book addressed the removal and replacement of the antenna, either, but if I were to do that incorrectly, the worst would be lack of radio reception, or maybe a short in the stock "Symphony Sound" cassette deck, which wouldn't affect me too much. Maybe the Chilton's editorial staff book would be more detailed.

   All in all, it's a very informative book, with a lot of general troubleshooting information. Also, it's going to help me remove my engine from my '70 Eldorado quite nicely. I'm going to keep it, if for nothing else, than as a guide for the Eldo engine and as a generic book on automotive mechanics. All the specs are there, and that's nice.




4. This may very well be the best investment I have ever made. I almost purchased another name brand manual and I am glad I didn't. I found the information in it to be vague and confusing but with the Chilton's everything is easy to find and understand. I have saved over $300 so far by doing the work myself and am about to save $200 more this weekend. I would recommend Chilton's to anyone who is working on a car expert or novice. It's well worth the price!!!!



5. This book is absolutely worthless. The information is ridiculously vague. For example, if you wish to remove your radiator and install a new one, the steps basically say:
   1) remove radiator.
   2) install new radiator.
   
   No kidding! I couldn't have figured that out myself! And most of the book is like that. I don't know how you can cover model years 1967-89 and say anything of value.

5 comments about Cadillac Jack : A Novel.

1. McMurtry scholars have dubbed this part of the author's "Trash Trilogy," and if you're expecting Lonesome Dove or Terms of Endearment you may agree. This is McMurtry's sidelong, amused and also slightly amazed look at the foibles of Washington, D.C. There's not a lot going on here, but McMurtry spins a good yarn nonetheless. You won't be uplifted or probably even very impressed, but you will be entertained.



2. These are the words of our classic Anton Chekhov. Does McMartry advertise Cadillac Jack as another Terms of Endearment? Why it's wrong to be entertained and ask yourself - So what?- when the book is finished? The book is funny,unpretentious and concise. I made myself finish Moving On, dropped all these prequels & sequels to Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment halfway through, gasping at McMurtry's productivity, enjoyed his Pulitzer Prize winner and the book the Oscar winner is based on. But it's the books like Cadillac Jack and Anything For Billy that gave me a few precious hours of enjoyment and relaxation. They are well above the mass market fare but they do not plan to enter the Booker's shortlist, perfectly satisfied with being what they are.



3. A wonderful character study, a period piece first published back in 1982, filled with wit and satire and mighty fine writing. Best book/antique scout book I've read since John Dunning's BOOKED TO DIE. It also reminds me of Paul Theroux's more recent HOTEL HONOLULU in tone, and as in that funny novel, some of the chapters here could stand alone as short stories.

   I picture Cadillac Jack as looking like Kinky Friedman or Richard Boone, narrating the story in a Texas accent, boots propped up on the liar's bench, eyes arcing under the cowboy hat in a bet-you-can't-top-this-one slant.

   What a pleasant surprise! An amazing character. An amazing yarn.




4. This was the first McMurtry novel that I read.I like earthy stories;and boy was this a dandy.If you enjoy novels like Cannery Row,Tobacco Road or anything by Kinky Friedman you should like Cadallic Jack.I enjoyed it so much,I started reading the rest of McMurtrys novels.So far, I found it the most humorous,entertaining and lighthearted of the ones I've read.He has written the episodes so well you feel you are travelling right along with him and loving every moment of it.
   I assume a lot of these stories are fictional ,in whole or in part,but are probably based on some of the authors experiences.
   What I have come to like about McMurtry's books is that they are all so different from one another;and I think this one is the most different.
   If there is any truth about this character,there should a law against it;nobody should be allowed to have that much fun--not one person.



5. With the exception of reviews of both the book and movie versions of The Last Picture Show in this space the usual reference I make to Larry McMurtry concerns his thoughtful reviews of the history of the Old West in the New York Review of Books (most recently on General Custer, March 6, 2008). Despite that merely nodding acquaintance I know three things about Mr. McMurtry from those articles. McMurtry loves books, I mean he really loves them. I understand that he is the consummate bookseller/pack rat. He loves, as mentioned above, the Old West; a place where he grew up (deep in the heart of Texas) and from the themes of his books formed a huge imprint on his character. And he loves to talk about swap meets and the vagaries of pack ratdom. That last point is important here because this seemingly bedraggled, scorned and misunderstood profession is central to the story that he tells here.
   
   The plot line is pretty straightforward. Cadillac Jack is an ex-professional cowboy turned (to be kind) second-hand entrepreneur riding far and wide throughout the country in search of El Dorado- that elusive million-dollar treasure to be found at a flea market stall. At least that is his cover for this story. But we know from McMurtry's coming of age book The Last Picture Show that this is really about a man in search of himself and where he stands in the world. Especially with women. In other words the real eternal quest.
   
   The major action of the story is centered in the secondary power lanes of Washington, D.C. Now we all know what one can expect will happen to an old cowboy when he gets messed up with that crowd. They make bull riding or auction cruising seem like a day in the park. But, Cadillac could handle that all and have time for lunch if he could solve what ails him and that is the above-mentioned woman question (surprise, surprise) although he seems to have had more than his fair share of interesting experiences with them. What ties the whole story together, as in my limited experience with McMurtry's s work he seems always able to do, are the doings (and undoings) of a strong secondary set of characters (some displaced Texans, some not) who are either buying or selling something, not always legally. Needless to say I need to investigate Mr. McMurtry's work further. But, dear reader, this is not a bad place to start.