When down-on-his-luck filmmaker Eric Shaw is hired to
document the life of dying billionaire Campbell Bradford,
he considers the job just the latest in a long line of
projects that are beneath him. After Eric attempts to
interview Bradford on his hospital deathbed, he heads to
the old man's hometown in southern Indiana to see what he
can dig up about the Bradford's mysterious, but supposedly
colorful, past.
Eric takes an artifact from Bradford back to Indiana with
him, an old bottle of mineral water Bradford has been
carrying around for decades. Not long after arriving in
West Baden, Eric starts to hallucinate. Frightening visions
of the past featuring a younger Campbell Bradford haunt
Eric and only grow more intense as the days go by. As Eric
gets deeper into his research, he realizes with a dawning
horror that nothing he was told about his subject can
possibly be true. The man Eric met in the hospital, the
billionaire who has lived a long and prosperous life as
Campbell Bradford, is an imposter. The real Bradford has a
bone to pick and now he's free again to do as he pleases.
And what he plans to do is take back what belongs to him.
As he steps over one dead body at a time, Bradford inches
his way toward Eric Shaw with all the focused intensity
only a dead man could muster.
Michael Koryta's new novel is American Gothic at its
best. In the tradition of Stephen King, SO COLD THE
RIVER will most certainly send a chill down your spine and
keep you turning pages well into the night.
It started with a documentary. The beautiful Alyssa
Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to unearth the life story of
her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a 95-year-old
billionaire whose childhood is wrapped in mystery. Eric
grabs the job, even though the only clues to Bradford's
past are his hometown and an antique water bottle he's kept
his entire life.
In Bradford's hometown, Eric discovers an extraordinary
past--a glorious domed hotel where movie stars, presidents,
athletes, and mobsters once intermingled. Long derelict,
the hotel has just been restored to its former grandeur.
But something else has been restored too--a long-forgotten
evil that will stop at nothing to settle a decades-old
score. And with every move, Eric inches closer to the
center of the building storm.
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