The Final Country: 2 (Milo Milodragovitch) - Softcover

Crumley, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1101971509 ISBN 13: 9781101971505

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2016

Synopsis

A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book

It's business as usual for Milo Milodragovitch, watching a relationship go sour and running a bar whose real business is cleaning some dirty money, until he gets sent off to hunt a drug dealer's killer. Prodded by the twin motivations of his prickly conscience and his tight finances, Milo sets off on a trip to find the promised land. The end of the road will be where he first began: Montana, where a beautiful woman, a dangerous man, and a motherlode of truth are waiting for their favorite son to come home--bringing with him a gun, a plan, and a prayer.

About this title

Review:

"Earthy characters, raw language, and exuberantly violent action. . . . The products of a well-honed--and all too rare--art."--The New York Times

"Road-ready, wry, lyrical, and explosive, this is Crumley at his best, which means it is one of the best books of its kind you will ever read."
--George Pelecanos, author of The Double

"[Milo is] one of literature's more interesting sleuths. . . . Crumley once again is in good form, his strong voice ringing true on every page."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"Crumley . . . is pumped up and writing for his life again. For all his remarkable ease of style, the earthy characters, raw language and exuberantly violent action that distinguish it are the products of a well-honed--and all too rare--art."
--The New York Times

"James Crumley is an American poet. Like a true artist, he does not merely reflect our culture, he subverts it. The Final Country is simply one of the best books you can read this year."
--Kinky Friedman

"This book is so tight and powerful it could be carved in granite. The plot tends to cruise along with the ease of an Eldorado with a crankcase full of Southern Comfort. . . . He's not the most prolific American crime writer, but crime fiction aficionados have learned that, like good scotch, Crumley's novels take a little more time than the ordinary stuff."
--Austin Chronicle

"Reading this book is like drinking exceptional wine after years on cheap stuff. You start to gulp it down, greedy for the buzz, then realize you need to slow down and savor each drop. I pity people who haven't read Crumley. And I envy them, because they still have a chance to discover him."
--Laura Lippman

"The pleasures of Crumley come from the language, the characters and the unexpected depth of emotion. The language is on display everywhere, not as beautiful and rich as that of Crumley's Montana neighbor James Lee Burke, but just as evocative."
--The Oregonian

"If you like your detective fiction tough and tenacious, you will love James Crumley. . . . No one does it better." --The Houston Chronicle

"James Crumley is a first-rate American writer. . . . pyrotechnically entertaining, sexy, compassionate." --The Village Voice

From the Back Cover:

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. Montana born and bread, Milo has come down from the high country to live on the cash he earned with blood and madness. 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 Desert Eagle.50 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, and the hissing lawns of a suburban golf course become the backdrop for an ugly little gunfight. 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. By the time he knows the players and the plays, he's spit straight out of Texas, driving back to Montana for a meeting with a big man carrying a big gun – and a rendezvous with the most beautiful woman who has ever taken Milo for a ride.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1101971509
• ISBN 13: 9781101971505
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336