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On the Other Side of the River
After abandoning a bad job and a worse wife, Carter moves to Mexico to start over. But after a few months of enjoying the sunshine and tacos he's kidnapped by a brutal drug lord who thinks Carter can help bring down an equally ruthless rival. It soon becomes clear that Carter probably won't make it out of the coming war alive, and he decides that if he has to go, he's going to bring his enemies down with him.
330 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 14, 2017
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Noah Goats
8 books32 followersNoah Goats is an office drone who writes in his spare time. He's married and has four kids. Now that he has them, four seems like kind of a lot. He also has a big white dog that looks like a wolf and wants to run away to live with the coyotes who populate the mountains near Goats's house. There is a cat named Remi skulking around the family home as well.
Goats has been writing for fun and no profit since he was 14. He started with comedy bits, and then moved on to poetry in college. Fortunately, none of this poetry has survived beyond one typo packed T.S. Eliot ripoff that was published in the college literary magazine. You will never read this.
He wrote a novel each year he was in law school, which is a stupid thing to do and can only negatively impact your grades and harm your chance at getting a real job in the legal profession. He self published one of these novels as Incomplete Works. He shoved the other two down the memory hole.
He's written a few more books since then, and self published one of them (Houses on the Sand). In 2016 a collection of ghost stories that he wrote with Erren Michaels (Jersey Ghost Stories) was published by The History Press in the UK.
Goats has been writing for fun and no profit since he was 14. He started with comedy bits, and then moved on to poetry in college. Fortunately, none of this poetry has survived beyond one typo packed T.S. Eliot ripoff that was published in the college literary magazine. You will never read this.
He wrote a novel each year he was in law school, which is a stupid thing to do and can only negatively impact your grades and harm your chance at getting a real job in the legal profession. He self published one of these novels as Incomplete Works. He shoved the other two down the memory hole.
He's written a few more books since then, and self published one of them (Houses on the Sand). In 2016 a collection of ghost stories that he wrote with Erren Michaels (Jersey Ghost Stories) was published by The History Press in the UK.
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July 7, 2020
These aren't "five-Noah-is-my-Goodreads-friend" stars. These are "five-this-is-as-good-as-any-Reacher-novel-any-Orphan-X-novel-any-hard-hitting-noir-book" stars. Seriously - right up there with Chandler. And as dark and deep as Philip Kerr.
This is a damn good book. I'm absolutely blown away by this novel. I don't know if Mr. Goats spent any time south of the border or he did some extremely good research, but this book is authentic. I grew up on the US/Mexico border and spent 6 years living and working in Mexico, mostly in Ciudad Juarez. I never smuggled drugs, but I am not unfamiliar with the culture. This book rings true on every page.
Noah, really, truly, shop this book around for a publisher. It's that good. I'm sorry I got it for free from Amazon because I'd definitely fork over $10 or $20 for what I just read.
Damn!
This is a damn good book. I'm absolutely blown away by this novel. I don't know if Mr. Goats spent any time south of the border or he did some extremely good research, but this book is authentic. I grew up on the US/Mexico border and spent 6 years living and working in Mexico, mostly in Ciudad Juarez. I never smuggled drugs, but I am not unfamiliar with the culture. This book rings true on every page.
Noah, really, truly, shop this book around for a publisher. It's that good. I'm sorry I got it for free from Amazon because I'd definitely fork over $10 or $20 for what I just read.
Damn!
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