Publisher's Note A blood-encrusted ceramic figure is at the center of private investigator C. W. Sughrue's search through the American West for the missing mother of his Vietnam buddy. By the author of The Final Country. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett Award. Reprint.
Industry Reviews "I never thought James Crumley would write a book to equal his 1978 novel 'The Last Good Kiss'. But I was wrong. He's done it with 'The Mexican Tree Duck'." Harry Crews
"An astonishing, intense novel that far exceeds everything being written in crime fiction. Line for line, James Crumley's powerful, gifted prose puts him in the ranks of the finest American writers." Gerald Petievich