Gone South - Robert R. McCammon
Robert McCammon, Robert R. McCammon
Category: Mystery
Tags: Mystery, Horror, Adults
It was hells season, and the air smelled of burning children., With of the most arresting first sentences in contemporary writing (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Robert McCammon unfurls his visionary masterpiece of survival, redemption, and the astonishing transformations love can create., GONE SOUTH chronicles a desperate mans journey through a desperate land, in a gothic picaresque that mixes gritty plot and black comedya smoothly constructed and satisfying story (The Wall Street Journal )., Flooded by memories, poisoned by Agent Orange, Dan Lambert kills a man in a moment of fear and fury and changes his life forever. Pursued by police and bounty hunters, Dan flees south toward the Louisiana bayous. In the swamplands he meets Arden Halliday, a young woman who bears the vivid burdens of her own past, and who is searching for a legendary faith healer called the Bright Girl. Looking for simple kindness in a world that rarely shows it, bound by a loyalty stronger than love, Dan and
