'A fantastic road trip...wild, wicked, sweet, painful, courageous, outrageous, and obscene' New York Times
Never the most conventional of private detectives, C. W. Sughrue is called in to solve a far from traditional missing persons case. A beautiful woman has vanished, and Sughrue is set to be the next in a long line of people who have tried to find her: the FBI, her well-connected Republican husband, and – most worryingly – a group of South American drug dealers. And his only clue is a hollowed-out sculpture of a duck.
From Montana to the Mexican border, Sughrue embarks on a wild ride, as he finds himself in and out of trouble – and the beds of one or two women. And, as he runs from his memories of Vietnam, he ponders the meaning of loyalty and revenge. This is a journey like no other from the pen of James Crumley, the master of a generation of crime writers.
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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 07/04/2016
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ISBN: 9781473540712
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Length: 256 Pages
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RRP: £8.34
Reviews
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The pleasures of Crumley's writing has always been in the characters, dialogue and incidental delights
Independent
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It's the journey, with all its wild, wicked, sweet, painful, courageous, outrageous and obscene encounters - which must somehow include those between man and duck - that will stay with the reader after the blood dries'
New York Times
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The pleasures of a James Crumley novel derive mostly from the zing of its characters, the bite of its epigrams, and a restless, almost manic vitality - prose on amphetamines
Entertainment Weekly
