Bloomsbury
July 2016
On Sale: June 21, 2016
Featuring: Lamar Hale
192 pages ISBN: 1632864525 EAN: 9781632864529 Kindle: B01GHCHPSY Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
In his celebrated career, James Sallis has created some of
the most finely drawn protagonists in crime fiction, all of
them thoughtful observers of the human condition: Lew
Griffin, the black New Orleans private investigator; retired
detective John Turner; the unnamed wheelman in Drive.
Dr. Lamar Hale will now join the ranks of Sallis's finest
characters.
In the woods outside the town of Willnot,
the remains of several people have suddenly been discovered,
unnerving the community and unsettling Hale, the town's
all-purpose general practitioner, surgeon, and town
conscience. At the same time, Bobby Lowndes--his military
records disappeared, being followed by the FBI--mysteriously
reappears in his hometown, at Hale's door. Over the ensuing
months, the daily dramas Hale faces as he tends to his town
and to his partner, Richard, collide with the inexplicable
vagaries of life in Willnot. And when a gunshot aimed at
Lowndes critically wounds Richard, Hale's world is truly
upended.
In his inimitably spare style, James Sallis
conjures indelible characters and scenes that resonate long
after they appear. "You live with someone year after year,
you think you've heard all the stories," Lamar observes,
"but you never have."
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