I have just had a great weeks reading and it was finished off nicely by Bordersnakes.
It features both of Crumley's P. I's in the same story, partnered up, there's C W Sughrue and Milo Milodragovitch, both alcoholic, both drug abusers, both very nasty individuals.
Sughrue wants to find the person that shot him in the guts and Milodragovitch wants to find the person that stole his 3 million dollar inheritance. That's the story and both story lines are intertwined.
The only annoying bit is that's it's written in the first person and chops and changes between the two P.I.s, not a great trick to pull on your readers, Jim ( but he's dead now so he won't ever care what I think.)
It not very often that a entire novel is populated by totally unlikeable individuals but this is one of them, even our hero's aren't nice.
Its a normal Crumley, very violent and very well written, its not his best but a great rainy day read (and we have had a few lately).
The story ranges through 'dives' and various bedrooms of West Texas and L A and finishes south of the border.
A drug fueled adventure but a very very dark read.
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