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tmhwrd's review against another edition
Hughes's novels In a Lonely Place and The Expendable Man are great, but this is dire.
coneyboro's review against another edition
4.0
A story that is so immersive as Julie attempts to travel across America to find her cousin. Set during WWII, she entered America illegally and doesn't know who to trust.
Hughes's ability to focus the action on one person's viewpoint is effective story telling in the noir tradition.
Hughes's ability to focus the action on one person's viewpoint is effective story telling in the noir tradition.
katcic's review against another edition
5.0
Great tension and chase by train across the USA and some great stand offs and double crossing. Extremely assured hard-boiled espionage fiction.
amandadelbrocco's review against another edition
2.0
Women write pulp, as the cover reminded me several times. This is great, but I found that.. I don't like pulp.
susannes_pagesofcrime's review against another edition
4.0
Noir.
World War II.
Female author/female protagonist.
Tense.
World War II.
Female author/female protagonist.
Tense.
zrwp's review
4.0
fun to read some non-misogynistic noir for once! plot started a bit slow but last third was really good
myxomycetes's review
4.0
Pulp novel from the 40s about a refugee from occupied France in New York caught up in a murder investigation and on the run from the FBI and the Gestapo. She flees to Santa Fe where she hopes to find “the Blackbirder” a smuggler who carries passengers across the Mexican border. A taut paranoid noir.
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