I enjoyed the book. I've always preferred the Milo
Milodragovitch character over the Sughrue one, and I was glad
to see COUNTRY featured him.
The really interesting thing about it, I think, is the very
conscious decision on Crumley's part to pay homage to the
plot of FAREWELL, MY LOVELY. Like this:
Milo is on a missing persons case when he follows a big man
into a bar. The big guy is looking for someone who used to
hang out the bar. Turns out the big guy has been in prison
and just got out. He busts up the place and then goes into
the back office and kills the bar owner with his own
gun.
Milo follows a lead to the house of a woman who he gets
talking by giving her coke (not booze) and she brings back a
photo supposedly of one of the people the big guy is looking
for. And so on ...
One twist is that instead of the big guy being white and the
bar being for blacks as in FAREWELL, the big guy is black and
most of the people in the bar are white.
The whole plot isn't like FAREWELL--just enough to play a big
inside joke.
--Mark
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