Jimmy Burns

Created by Charles Portis (1933-2020) "Christmas again in Yucatán. Another year gone and I still scratching around this limestone peninsula." Best known for his classic (and bestselling) Western, 1968's True Grit, genre-hopping author Charles Portis never quite got around to writing a private eye novel. But 1991's character-driven, tongue-in-cheek Gringos comes awfully close. JIMMY BURNS … Continue reading Jimmy Burns

Mark Desmond

Created by Ernesto Spinelli "I don't know much, but I do know this: the only things that matter are those stupid little rules each of us makes up just so we can find some way of navigating ourselves through life." It's 1980, the crash-and-burn of the idealistic sixties and the morning-after hangover of the Me … Continue reading Mark Desmond