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James Crumley
James Crumley
The Final CountryThe Final Country
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First British Edition HarperCollins (2002)
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A Byzantine tangle of crime, sex, drugs, violence and retribution in red-neck Texas from the ultimate hard-boiled writer
Texas is no place for tears. And Milo Milodragovitch couldn’t shed them if he tried. Bored with life, failing at his relationship, and running a bar whose real business is cleaning dirty money, Milo aches for a change. Then he collides with Enos Walker, a big man holding a big semi-automatic.
Fresh out of jail, Enos is looking for the partners who turned him in - and gentle persuasion is not his style. When a drug dealer who makes the mistake of pulling a gun on him gets shot, the cops are ready to add murder to the long list of crimes Walker is in the frame for. Only Milo stands between the fugitive and the death penalty, but the moment he starts looking for Enos he’s hit by a wall of Texas voodoo.
First one gorgeous woman sets him up for a fall, then another goes missing. Suddenly Milo is free-falling into another country, a land of big money, crooked politicians and two women willing to share their lust with a private eye with a bad back...
Praise For James Crumley
‘Crumley writes like an angel on speed... Indispensable’ Time Out
‘Exciting, invigorating, foul-mouthed and funny’ Literary Review
‘Undoubtedly the rightful heir to Chandler or Ross MacDonald’ Daily Telegraph
‘[The Mexican Tree Duck] sets a scorching pace in blood, cordite, double-dealing and wild justice. It is also humorous, caustic, moving; a toast to comradeship, a lyric lament for an older vanishing America’ Observer
‘One of the best crime writers in America ... Devotees of Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler will seize on Crumley with delight’ Daily Mail
‘Wild, wicked, sweet, painful, courageous, outrageous and obscene’ New York Times Book Review
‘Crumley is an American poet. Like a true artist, he does not merely reflect our culture, he subverts it’ Kinky Friedman
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First British Edition HarperCollins (1997)
Bordersnakes
See Review by Andrew Taylor - author of the highly acclaimed Roth & Lydmouth Series
See Review by Jay Russell - one of the greatest talents the horror industry has produced for some time… (Black Tears)
James Crumley's private-eye novels Featuring Milo Milodragovitch and C. W. Sughrue are regarded as masterpieces of contemporary crime fiction. Now, for the first time, the author who has reinvented the hard-boiled novel unites his two great characters, teaming them on a journey that fishtails through clouds of dust and pools of blood from Montana to the Texas - Mexico border.
Someone gut-shot Sughrue in New Mexico and left him to live with his demons, running naked in the blood-red desert sunset and loving the only woman who has ever managed to love him. Someone took all the money in Milodragovitch's daddy's will, leaving Milo with just a 2,000 dollar Italian silk suit and a Cadillac El Dorado - and a hard-on for retribution. Now, Sughrue and Milodragovitch, two of the most hard-bitten cases the west ever produced, have come together in El Paso for a death trip across a Country called Texas, to a state of mind called revenge.
For Milodragovitch, its a matter of finding the banker who absconded with his inheritance. For Sughrue, it's all about confronting the man who set him up for target practice. And for both, it's a case that revolves around a ranch house in Austin where two people were tortured to death - and a luxurious, cocaine-dusted death trap near the Mexican border.

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About The Author
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 English as a visiting writer at the university of Texas at El Paso. His private eye novels featuring Milo Milodragovitch and C.W. Sughrue are regarded as masterpieces of contemporary crime fiction.

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

  • The Final Country (HarperCollins, 2002) (Milo Milodragovitch)
  • Bordersnakes (HarperCollins, 1997) Flamingo Pbk 1998 ( Milodragovitch & Sughrue)
  • The Mexican Tree Duck (Picador, 1994) ( Milodragovitch & Sughrue)
  • One To Count Cadence
  • The Wrong Case
  • The Last Good Kiss
  • Dancing Bear

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