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Byron Aldridge, heir to a timber empire, returns from the First World War a changed man and finds refuge as a company policeman in a backwoods Louisiana sawmill. Soon his younger brother Randolph tracks him down, assuming charge of the mill in the hope of
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Reviews
So firmly located and vividly realised that you can almost smell the Louisiana swampwater ... a gripping, action-packed tale, but also a notably intelligent one
Astonishingly powerful ... brilliantly written and the characters in their mire are superbly realised
An extraordinary novel, one of the best I've read in years
I cannot recommend it highly enough.
Gautreaux captures the fetid atmosphere of a frontier society poised to join the modern world with great skill, each sentence polished to perfection
Near-perfect ... untouchably good