The Final Country [first edition]

In a state of mind just outside of Austin, Texas, ex-private eye Milo Milodragovitch is watching a relationship go sour and running a bar whose real business is cleaning some dirty money. Now a man five times married and many times burned will find out how far he really is from the Promised Land . . . It all starts when Milo collides with a big black man who's just shot a drug dealer and promptly disappears. The cops want Milo to hunt the gunman down -- for the wrong reasons and in the wrong places. Milo goes running into a world of big money, small armies, and two women with enough lust to share it with a private eye with a bad back. For Milo, the end of the road is the land of his birth, Montana, where a beautiful woman, a dangerous man, and a mother lode of truth are waiting for their favorite son to come home -- bringing with him a gun, a plan, and a prayer.