The Final Country - Hardcover
In a state of mind just outside of Austin, Texas, ex-private eye Milo Milodragovitch is watching a relationship go sour and running a bar whose real business is cleaning some dirty money. Now a man five times married and many times burned will find out how far he really is from the Promised Land . . .
It all starts when Milo collides with a big black man who's just shot a drug dealer and promptly disappears. The cops want Milo to hunt the gunman down -- for the wrong reasons and in the wrong places. Milo goes running into a world of big money, small armies, and two women with enough lust to share it with a private eye with a bad back. For Milo, the end of the road is the land of his birth, Montana, where a beautiful woman, a dangerous man, and a mother lode of truth are waiting for their favorite son to come home -- bringing with him a gun, a plan, and a prayer.
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Review:
It's been too long since James Crumley's last Milo Milodragovitch adventure, but the wait was worth it. The Final Country is a fully satisfying read with plenty of action, even more sex, and superb characterization.
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"A chase after money and revenge had brought me to Texas, and a woman had kept me here," Milo explains. But trying to salvage a love affair, keep his PI business going, and run a tavern (whose real business is laundering drug money) hasn't kept trouble from following Milo--or maybe it's the other way around. When a man kills a drug dealer right in front of him, Milo can't help but track the shooter down, if only to keep the Texas cops from railroading him into the death chamber. Soon one beautiful woman frames Milo for the murder of a well- connected Texan, and another one with ties to both killings disappears, setting up the intricately plotted action of this fast-paced thriller.
Crumley's narrative gifts and poetic talents set this crazy-funny mystery apart. Milo is a consistently interesting protagonist, especially here, as Crumley depicts him in the fullness of middle age, a hard-boiled, bruised, and battered dick who, despite all evidence to the contrary, still believes in the redemptive powers of love--not to mention liquor, cocaine, and sex. Texas may not be Milo's natural habitat, but it's a big enough backdrop for his unique talents, and for Crumley's, too. --Jane Adams
James Crumley lives in Montana.
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- PublisherWheeler Publishing
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1587244128
- ISBN 13 9781587244124
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages467
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