James Crumley

L'increvable C.W. Sughrue, après avoir ramassé une balle dans le ventre au Mexique, est revenu dans sa bonne ville de Meriwether, Montana, pour se refaire une santé. C'est sans compter sur ses ennemis de toujours, police locale, mafia ukrainienne ou psychopathes locaux, bien décidés à lui faire la peau. Le pire danger, pourtant, est ailleurs. Un ami très proche, psychiatre ambigu connu sur les champs de bataille du Vietnam, lui demande d'identifier la personne ayant piraté les dossiers confidentiels de ses patients. L'enquête vire au cauchemar. Gavé d'alcool, de drogues et de sexe, Sughrue se bat pour garder à distance la folie qui le guette. Une première femme se décapite sous ses yeux. Une autre se mutile. Entraîné dans une quête crépusculaire et insensée, le privé devra exhumer des pans entiers d'un passé plus que trouble. Rien ne lui sera épargné : pas même sa propre histoire…

Après sa précédente aventure (lire Les serpents de la frontière), Milo Milodragovitch s''est installé au Texas. Il est enfin riche et vit des amours déclinantes avec sa compagne Betty. Histoire de ne

Une horde de bandits mexicains et leur cochon, un couple d''Américains se dissolvant lentement dans l''eau chaude et sulfureuse, une Blanche Neige coincée entre les neiges du Montana et celles de Colombie... Bref, neuf histoires rudes et belles comme l''incomparable ecriture de James Crumley.

Crumley writes like an angel on speedTime Out Clark Air Force Base, the Philippines. 1962. Sergeant Jacob Slag Krummel, wannabe scholar now warrior, is posted to the base to take command of the 721st Communication Security Detachment, perhaps the least committed band of drunken, rebellious and bored soldiers in the US Air Force. With the Vietnam War looming large in their minds, they cannot escape war, fear and the truth about America, overturning the lies theyve been told about their homeland. First published in 1969, this is the debut that launched the career of one of the greatest writers of his generation. Crumleys timeless classic is a stunning exploration of the effects of war, told with his trademark razor-sharp dialogue, dark humour, relentless pace and remarkable set pieces.

This complex thriller is so hardboiled it makes Ellroy and Connelly read like Simon and Garfunkel its good. Very good Time OutSettling and calming down is never easy. Especially not for Milo Milodragovitch. Hes set up a bar, and found a woman he thinks he may love, but he cant leave his work as a private investigator behind entirely. When he crosses paths with ex-con Enos Walker, and as the bullets fly, hes launched on to a cocaine- and alcohol-fuelled quest to solve a 20-year-old mystery. Its a journey that will take him racing across Texas, Montana and Mexico, with barely a moment for him or you to catch breathA brilliant achievement, with Crumley returned to his full powers, seeming to say with each assured sentence, Yeah, Im an old dog, but I still wag the baddest bone Publishers Weekly

La quatrième et dernière aventure de Milo Milodragovitch.Nouvelle traduction de Jacques Mailhos et 17 illustrations inédites de Baudoin.« Une course après largent et la vengeance mavait amené au Texa

Qui a bien pu entrer par effraction dans le cabinet du docteur Will MacKinderick, psychanalyste à Meriwether, dans le Montana ? Pourquoi avoir dérobé des données confidentielles de patients ?Sughrue,

Milo Milodragovitch is a once-successful divorce lawyer, who now prefers to spend his days drinking and staring out the window. That all changes when Helen Duffy walks into his office and asks him to find her missing brother.Though its not his usual line of work, Milo agrees to help - he needs the money, and he wants to spend more time with this beautiful woman. But this is far from a routine case, and whispers of a long-past crime haunt Milos every move . . .As sweetly profane a poet as American noir could have asked for Ian RankinLike James Ellroy, he is a master of American vernacular, turning tough-guy slang into something like poetryIndependent

A classic from a legend of American crime writing. Crumley writes like an angel on speed Time Out.Milo Milodragovitch isnt exactly an upstanding citizen. Hes more than likely to be drunk, and leaves heartbreak in his wake; five ex-wives to be precise. In fact, his forte is self-destruction (Elmore Leonard). When an elderly lady offers him a handsome fee to satisfy her curiosity he thinks its an easy job, a quick win. Every Thursday she watches a couple arrive at the same spot at the woods opposite her house, in separate cars. But finding out who they are and what theyre doing is far from straightforward and before he knows it Milo is in a world of trouble, complete with machine guns, grenades, and a bag of coke. Never a dull day...

A fantastic road trip...wild, wicked, sweet, painful, courageous, outrageous, and obsceneNew York TimesNever 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.