The Many Deaths Of The Firefly Brothers Thomas Mullen
Random House
February 2010
On Sale: January 26, 2010
Featuring: Jason Fireson; Whit Fireson
403 pages ISBN: 1400067537 EAN: 9781400067534 Hardcover Add to Wish List
In award-winning author Thomas Mullen's evocative new
novel, we follow the Depression-era adventures of Jason and
Whit Fireson--bank robbers known as the Firefly Brothers by
the press, the authorities, and an adoring public that
worships their acts as heroic counterpunches thrown at a
broken system.
Late one night in August 1934, following a yearlong
spree of bank robberies across the Midwest, the Firefly
Brothers are forced into a police shootout and die . . . for
the first time.
In award-winning author Thomas Mullen's evocative new
novel, the highly anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed
debut, The Last Town on Earth, we follow the
Depression-era adventures of Jason and Whit Fireson—bank
robbers known as the Firefly Brothers by the press, the
authorities, and an adoring public that worships their acts
as heroic counterpunches thrown at a broken system.
Now it appears they have met their end in a hail of
bullets. Jason and Whit's lovers—Darcy, a wealthy socialite,
and Veronica, a hardened survivor—struggle between grief and
an unyielding belief that the Firesons are still alive.
While they and the Firesons' stunned mother and
straight-arrow brother wade through conflicting police
reports and press accounts, wild rumors spread that the
bandits are at large. Through it all, the Firefly Brothers
remain as charismatic, unflappable, and as mythical as the
American Dream itself, racing to find the women they love
and make sense of a world in which all has come unmoored.
Complete with kidnappings and gangsters, heiresses and
speakeasies, The Many Deaths of the Firefly
Brothers is an imaginative and spirited saga about what
happens when you are hopelessly outgunned—and a masterly
tale of hardship, redemption, and love that transcends death.
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