It was hells season, and the air smelled of burning children.
With one 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 comedy.
a 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 Arden set off on a journey of relentless suspense and impassioned discovery.
over dark, twisting waterways into the mysterious depths of the human heart.
