By the time I caught up with him, though, he had had enough of his dream.I must admit that, after finishing part four, I put this book down for about twenty days (not exactly unusual for me) when I picked it up to finish parts five and six, I found myself completely disoriented, at one point unable to discern whether the characters in a certain scene were riding in a chartered helicopter or a van- never mind where they were going, or for what purpose. So he faked a robbery, fled with the money and the drugs.fled toward the peace and freedom of the mountain west, Montana, the word like a benison on his trembling lips. And just as in The Last Good Kiss, Sughrue begins this adventure by chasing from state to state one of the lost souls that populate Crumley's post-Vietnam America: The pharmacist read the wrong books, maybe, or watched the wrong television shows, whatever, he became convinced that the revolution had taken place without him. Sughrue still hooks up with every woman he meets, as the genre requires, and there's even more of an affection, in this installment, for the granular details of weaponry and tactics of armed combat that wouldn't be out of place in a Garth Ennis comic (occasionally it feels less like a mystery and more like a "let's get our aging war buddies together for one last firefight, and lay siege to a rich bad guy's heavily-fortified compound" kind of story). Crumley still has his great ear for dialogue, his wicked sense of humor, and an obvious love for the landscapes of the mountain west, where most of the action again takes place. Naturally, there are also a lot of commonalities between the two books. Sughrue series, is more violent, depraved and profane more haunted by Vietnam and the prospect of old age and overall a little wilder and a little less coherent, than 1978's The Last Good Kiss.
The Mexican Tree Duck (1993), the second novel in Crumley's C.W. So I added, "and other people's money to fuck around with." Weapons and official photos, citations and medals, the phony debris of a foolish cause. Most of the wall space was occupied by artifacts from the Vietnam War.
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