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A Tale of Bindlestiffs and Blood
Poisoned Pen Press
January 2011
On Sale: January 1, 2011
Featuring: Charlie Krueger
250 pages
ISBN: 1590588207
EAN: 9781590588208
Hardcover
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The summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, an army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest. "Bull threshers," steam engineers, bindlestiffs, cooks, and camp followers join the tide. Prosperous farmers proudly proclaim, "Rain follows the plow," meaning that the bounty of the land will never be exhausted. Big Wheat is king, as people gleefully embrace the gospels of progress and greed. But something evil is also moving across the land. A serial killer who calls himself the Windmill Man believes he has a holy calling to water the newly plucked earth with blood. For him, the mobile harvest is a target-rich environment, an endless supply of ready victims. He has been killing for many years now and has no plans to retire. Who could stop him? Nobody even knows he exists. A young man named Charlie Krueger also follows the harvest. Jilted by his childhood sweetheart and estranged from his drunkard father, he hopes to find a new life as a steam engineer. But in a newly harvested field in the nearly black Dakota night, he comes upon a strange man digging a grave. And in that moment, Charlie becomes the only person who has seen the face of the killer and the only one who can stop him. If he lives long enough. Unknown to him, the sheriff from back home is hunting him for the murder of the Windmill Man's last victim. And the Windmill Man himself has also learned his name and is stalking him.
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