Jim Crumley è un acclamato scrittore naturalista, concentrato principalmente sul paesaggio e sulla fauna selvatica della Scozia. La sua prosa è appassionata, ispiratrice e visionaria, caratterizzata da sensibilità e una portata maestosa che cattura l'essenza del mondo naturale. La voce distintiva di Crumley e la sua profonda connessione con la natura selvaggia rendono il suo lavoro una lettura essenziale per chiunque cerchi di comprendere e apprezzare la natura. Il suo vasto corpus di opere offre un'esplorazione profonda ed evocativa del mondo naturale.
C.W. Sughrue hasn't slept through the night for months and is having trouble with his bowel movements. A recovering gunshot victim, the last thing he wants is more work from Dr Will MacKinderick. Sughrue is soon cursing as he finds himself taking on yet another dangerous case for the desperate psychoanalyst.
A Byzantine tangle of crime, sex, drugs, violence and retribution in red-neck Texas from the ultimate hard-boiled writer Milo Milogragovitch, Crumley’s uncontrollable, cocaine-snorting Montanan, takes centre stage in this adrenaline-fuelled thriller by the master of hard-boiled fiction. This time Milo’s trying to find his feet in Texas, earning a living as a bar owner and a PI on the side.A tedious job tracking down a runaway wife takes a violent turn when he finds himself in a bar with ex-con Enos Walker, who’s out for revenge on the partners who turned him in. Turning a gun on Walker, bar manager Billy Long has accidently shot himself and the police are only too keen to add his murder to the long list of crimes Walker’s in the frame for. Only Milo’s testimony can save him from a death sentence, but Milo’s got problems of his own in the shape of sultry lawyer Molly McBride.Hurtling from the plains of Texas to the desert town of Las Vegas, from the freezing Montana mountains to the Gulf of Mexico and the final bloody showdown, The Final Country is a non-stop roller-coaster ride that will leave you breathless.
16 nouvelles inédites par les maîtres du suspens américain
16 nouvelles inédites par les maîtres du suspense américain.
Ex-private eye C.W. Sughrue has been depressed, jobless and living in the basement of a morgue, but now a job has come up. He sets off on an odyssey of liquor, sex and gunplay to find a missing woman who has eluded the FBI and cocaine dealers.
"'As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for' Ian Rankin 'A friggin' masterpiece' Dennis Lehane 'The stunner that reinvigorated the genre and jacked up a generation of future crime novelists' George Pelecanos Meet Private Detective C. W. Sughrue. Private detectives are supposed to find missing persons and solve crimes. But more often than not Sughrue is the one committing the crimes u everything from grand theft auto to criminal stupidity. All washed down with a hearty dose of whiskey and regret. At the end of a three-week hunt for a runaway bestselling author, Sughrue winds up in a ramshackle bar, with an alcoholic bulldog. The landlady's daughter vanished a decade ago and now she wants Sughrue to find her. His search will take him to the deepest, darkest depths of San Francisco's underbelly, a place as fascinating, frightening and flawed as he is. Welcome to James Crumley's America."
Fino a qualche tempo fa, Milton Chester Milodragovitch terzo, Milo per gli amici e anche per i nemici, non se la passava poi male. Tallonare coniugi infedeli gli rendeva quanto bastava a pagarsi da bere al Mahoney's, il suo bar preferito. Poi la legge sul divorzio è cambiata, lasciarsi è diventato facile, e Milo si è ritrovato a ingannare la noia guardando le montagne dalla finestra del suo ufficio. Finché, naturalmente, non bussa alla sua porta una donna. Helen Duffy, goffa e bellissima. Suo fratello è scomparso. Un bravo ragazzo, uno studente modello che non farebbe male a una mosca. Milo non crede ai bravi ragazzi, però comincia a indagare. Per portarsi a letto Helen; senza immaginare che l'indagine sul fratello sarà tutto fuorché routine. Fra drink e anfetamine, criminali dilettanti e professionisti, Milo dovrà scavare nel fango per portare alla luce radici e ragioni dello spaccio di droga, della corruzione sempre più capillare, di una città che pare senza speranza e senza redenzione.