In The Right Madness, Sughrue's close friend, psychiatrist
Will MacKinderick, begs him to track down stolen confidential
psychoanalysis files-he suspects one of his patients is the
culprit. Going against every last instinct, Sughrue agrees to
take on the case-a $20,000 retainer is always hard to resist.
And when the suspects start dying of violently unnatural
causes, Sughrue-fueled by alcohol, drugs, and lurid sexual
entanglements-finds himself struggling to stay ahead of the
madness unfolding around him.
The Right Madness (Hardcover) by James Crumley
Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Viking Adult (May 5, 2005)
ISBN: 0670034061
>From Booklist
"I'd been older a few hours ago, but now those Scotch-Irish
redneck genes had taken over. Plus a couple of Vicodins. I
was a fistful of random trouble again." There's no doubt
who's talking: got to be C. W. Sughrue, Crumley's aging,
perpetually pickled, still-crazy-after-all-these-years
sleuth, on the warpath again. It wasn't supposed to be this
way, C. W. keeps telling us, as he chugs the pills, inhales
the weed, and swills the booze across most of the western
U.S. in search of . . . well, what exactly? We don't know,
that's for sure, and it's anybody's guess if C. W. does. It
all starts when Sughrue's Montana pal, psychiatrist Mac,
hires him to find out who stole the shrink's computer disks,
containing confidential details about his clients. Soon,
though, those clients have begun to die in incredibly
gruesome ways. The plot doesn't thicken so much as congeal,
but anyone who reads Crumley knows that storyline is only an
excuse to get our ol' boy on the road and on the juice. Yes,
it's starting to sound a bit too familiar, but there's
something about C. W.'s unrepentant thirst (both for booze
and vengeance) and his willful foolishness, his absolute
inability to do the sensible thing, that makes him stand out
in a genre on the verge of being taken over by reformed
drunks and socially responsible adults. This is
character-driven fiction for those who want no part of
designated drivers. Bill Ott Copyright © American Library
Association. All rights reserved
------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
--------------------~--> Has someone you know been
affected by illness or disease? Network for Good is THE place
to support health awareness efforts!
http://us.click.yahoo.com/rkgkPB/UOnJAA/Zx0JAA/kqIolB/TM
--------------------------------------------------------------------~->
RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rara-avis-l/
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email
to:
rara-avis-l-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 19 Apr 2005 EDT