About the The Final Country

The penultimate novel of James Crumley's career, widely regarded as one of his best, features ex-private eye Milo Milodragovitch reluctantly on a case that will send him on a cocaine- and alcohol-fueled journey from Austin, Texas to Mexico, Las Vegas, and the land of his birth: Montana.
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 is 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.