Blood Meridian is awesomely "noir" but I don't recall any
code of
personal honor that would place it in the hard-boiled camp,
in my book
at least. I'd have to agree that the western and hardboiled
genres
genres can be very close, once you rub out the ambient
optimism that
went along with opening up the west.
Cheers, --- Phil
Lycé¥ Astier, Aubenas, France
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