Michael Duvall

One of the finest crime novels ever written. I always felt James Crumley never got the recognition he deserved as a crime writer. I've read most of his novels and he was a wonderful writer. If I remember correctly he and James Lee Burke were friends and in one of Burke's Holland novels there was a writer character that seemed to resemble Crumley. Still this novel has the BEST opening line: "When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.”