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Little, Brown and Company
October 2010
On Sale: October 12, 2010
368 pages
ISBN: 0316033782
EAN: 9780316033787
Hardcover
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Tom Bedford is living alone in the isolated wilds of
Montana. Having distanced himself from his own troubled
past, he rarely sees his ex-wife, and his son, Danny, is
away in Iraq and hasn't spoken to him for years. Tom hasn't
always been so removed from society. As a boy, his mother
was a meteoric rising star in the glitzy, enchanted world of
1960s Hollywood. There, she fell in love with the suave Ray
Montane, who played young Tom's courageous onscreen hero,
Red McGraw, the fastest draw around. Tommy and his mother
lived in a glamorous, Hollywood version of the Wild West.
Everything was perfect, until the gold flaking on their
magical life began to chip away, revealing an uglier truth
beneath. Ray was not who he seemed. Tommy and his mother
fell into a deadly confrontation with him, and they fled
Hollywood forever, into the wilderness of the real West. As a man, Tom has put all of that behind him--or so he
thinks. Unexpectedly, his ex-wife calls, frantic: Danny has
been charged with murder. In the chaos of war, his son has
been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry. The
Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Tom, forced into
action, is now suddenly alive again and fighting to save the
son he'd let slip away. To succeed, he must confront the
violence in his own past, and he finds that these two
selves--the past and the present--which he'd fought so long
to keep separate, are inextricably connected. As father and
son struggle to understand one another, both are compelled
to learn the true meaning of bravery. Beautifully interlacing the past and present, the author of
The Horse Whisperer reminds us that we are tied to the
glories and mistakes of our own history. The Brave lives up
to its name, as one the most courageous and full-hearted
novels of our time.
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