The Final Country
Published on 7. April 2016
256 pages
978-1-4735-4070-5 (ISBN)
Description
'This complex thriller is so hardboiled it makes Ellroy and Connelly read like Simon and Garfunkel... it's good. Very good' Time Out
Settling - and calming - down is never easy. Especially not for Milo Milodragovitch. He's set up a bar, and found a woman he thinks he may love, but he can't leave his work as a private investigator behind entirely.
When he crosses paths with ex-con Enos Walker, and as the bullets fly, he's launched on to a cocaine- and alcohol-fuelled quest to solve a 20-year-old mystery. It's a journey that will take him racing across Texas, Montana and Mexico, with barely a moment for him - or you - to catch breath...
'A brilliant achievement, with Crumley returned to his full powers, seeming to say with each assured sentence, "Yeah, I'm an old dog, but I still wag the baddest bone"' Publishers Weekly
Settling - and calming - down is never easy. Especially not for Milo Milodragovitch. He's set up a bar, and found a woman he thinks he may love, but he can't leave his work as a private investigator behind entirely.
When he crosses paths with ex-con Enos Walker, and as the bullets fly, he's launched on to a cocaine- and alcohol-fuelled quest to solve a 20-year-old mystery. It's a journey that will take him racing across Texas, Montana and Mexico, with barely a moment for him - or you - to catch breath...
'A brilliant achievement, with Crumley returned to his full powers, seeming to say with each assured sentence, "Yeah, I'm an old dog, but I still wag the baddest bone"' Publishers Weekly
Reviews / Votes
This complex thriller is so hardboiled it makes Ellroy and Connelly read like Simon and Garfunkel... it's good. Very good * Time Out * Combines the spare tautness of the best private eye novels with lyrical descriptions of an almost vanished West * The Times * This is an extraordinary double-barrelled blast from a lost era. It's a two-fisted epic of Texan treachery, packed to the gunwales with sex, drugs, booze and guns... * Independent * Lyrical, liberal, exciting and humane. Sexy, too, with a generosity that transcends taste and as violent as needs be * Literary Review *More details
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Edition type
Digital original
File size
2,26 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4735-4070-5 (9781473540705)
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Person
James Crumley was born in Three Rivers, Texas and spent most of his childhood in South Texas. He served three years in the US Army before teaching at University of Texas at El Paso, University of Montana and University of Arkansas. He passed away in 2008.
His private eye novels featuring Milo Milodragovitch and C. W. Sughrue are regarded as masterpieces of contemporary crime fiction, praised by Dennis Lehane, Ian Rankin and George Pelecanos. He was awarded the Dashiell Hammett Award for Best Literary Crime Novel and the CWA Silver Dagger Award.
His private eye novels featuring Milo Milodragovitch and C. W. Sughrue are regarded as masterpieces of contemporary crime fiction, praised by Dennis Lehane, Ian Rankin and George Pelecanos. He was awarded the Dashiell Hammett Award for Best Literary Crime Novel and the CWA Silver Dagger Award.
