From award-winning author Tom Piccirilli comes a wholly original
crime novel introducing the Rands, a vipers’ nest of crooks and
cons, one generation stealing from the next. Upon the razor-thin
edge between love and violence lives a pair of brothers, their
bonds frayed by betrayals and guilt, their loyalty to each other
their last salvation.
Raised to pick a pocket before he could walk, Terry Rand cut free
from his family after his older brother, Collie, went on a
senseless killing spree that left eight dead. Five years later,
only days before his scheduled execution, Collie contacts Terry and
asks him to return home. Collie claims he wasn’t responsible for
one of the murders—and insists that the real killer is still on the
loose.
Dogged by his own demons, Terry is swept back into the schemes and
scams of his family: His father, Pinsch, a retired cat burglar,
brokenhearted because of his two sons. His card-sharp uncles, Mal
and Grey, who’ve incurred the anger of the local mob. His
grandfather, Shep, whose mind is failing but whose fingers can
still slip out a wallet from across the room. His teenage sister,
Dale, who’s flirting dangerously with the lure of the family
business. And Kimmie, the woman Terry abandoned, who’s now raising
a child with Terry’s former best friend.
Terry pieces together the day his brother turned rabid, delving
into a blood history that reveals the Rand family tree is rotten to
the roots, and the secrets his ancestors buried are now coming
furious and vengeful to the surface.
A meditation on how love can confine a person just as easily as it
can free him, juxtaposing shocking violence and sly humor, The Last
Kind Words is the brilliantly inventive family saga that only a
singular talent like Tom Piccirilli could conjure.
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