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Random House
November 2007
On Sale: October 23, 2007
384 pages
ISBN: 0375508767
EAN: 9780375508769
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Ken Wells’s highly acclaimed picaresque Catahoula Bayou
novels introduced “one of the most compelling voices in
fiction of the last decade” (Los Angeles Times). Now Wells
is back, writing about his favorite subject–the exotic,
beleaguered Louisiana wetlands–in a sharp, rollicking tale
of corporate corruption and political shenanigans. The fight
over one man’s tract of sacred marsh fronts a deeper story
of our place in the environment and our obligations to it. Justin Pitre’s marsh island, a legacy of his trapper
grandfather, is a scenic rival to anything in the
Everglades, and he has promised to protect it from all harm.
But he hasn’t counted on oil bigwig Tom Huff’s plans to
wreck his bayou paradise by ramming a pipeline through it.
When cajolery doesn’t sway Justin to sign the land over,
Huff turns to darker methods. But Justin and his spirited
wife, Grace, prove to be formidable adversaries–and the game
is on. Into the fray comes the charismatic Cajun governor Joe T.
Evangeline, who seems more interested in chasing skirts than
saving Louisiana’s eroding coast. The Guv, though, is a man
on the edge, upended by a midlife crisis and torn between a
secret political obligation to Big Oil and the persuasive
powers of Julie Galjour, a feisty environmentalist. Julie is
clearly out to reform more than the Guv’s ecopolitics, but
will his tragicomic Big Oil deals wreck both his career and
his chances with the brash and beautiful activist? As Justin and Grace battle to stop this Big Oil assault, the
plot thickens–and the Guv becomes snared in the web.
Featuring a gumbo of eccentrics and lowlifes, a kidnapping,
a sexy snitch, a toxic-waste-dumping scheme, a boat chase,
and a fishing trip gone horribly awry, Crawfish Mountain,
spiced with Ken Wells’s keen eye for locale, showcases his
adventurous storytelling.
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