Gone South by Robert McCammon

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It was once hell's season, and the air smelled of burning children....With "one of the main arresting first sentences in modern writing" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Robert McCammon unfurls his visionary masterpiece of survival, redemption, and the staggering modifications love can create.GONE SOUTHchronicles a determined man's trip via a determined land, in "a gothic picaresque that combines gritty plot and black comedy...a easily developed and pleasant tale" (The Wall road magazine ).Flooded through stories, poisoned through Agent Orange, Dan Lambert kills a guy in a second of worry and fury -- and alterations his existence without end. Pursued by means of police and bounty hunters, Dan flees south towards the Louisiana bayous. within the swamplands he meets Arden Halliday, a tender girl who bears the vibrant burdens of her personal prior, and who's trying to find a mythical religion healer referred to as the brilliant woman. searching for basic kindness in a global that infrequently indicates it, sure by way of a loyalty superior than love, Dan and Arden trigger on a trip of relentless suspense and impassioned discovery...over darkish, twisting waterways into the mysterious depths of the human center.

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He hung up. "Cops figure he might be on his way to Alexandria. " "It's worth a shot. Fifteen thousand smacks ain't hay. " Smoates drew on his cheroot and released a ragged smoke ring that floated toward the ceiling. -six years, goin' on seven? You're one of the best trackers I ever had. You're smart, you can think ahead. But you got this attitude problem, boy. " "No, I don't," Flint answered crisply. " Smoates was silent for a few seconds, during which he stared without blinking at Flint through a haze of smoke.

He stared at the cleaver in the woman's fist. " "Froglegs," she said. " He nodded again, as if this made perfect sense. "That's what we live on," she continued, and her lower lip curled. "Ain't no money in this damn place. We sell froglegs to a restaurant in town. " She motioned with the cleaver again, toward the rear of the house. Dan saw jewels of blood on the blade. " "Farrow. " "Uh-huh. Well, Mr. " She didn't wait for an answer. "There's one, standin' right beside you. Ever heard of a cockeyed fool buyin' a damn motel on the edge of a swamp pond?

You work for me, you follow my orders," Smoates continued. "You do what I say, you draw a paycheck. " "Yeah," Flint managed to say. "Maybe you can grab Lambert, maybe you can't. I think Eisley's got potential, and I want to see what he's made of. Only way to do that is to send him out on a run with somebody, and I say that somebody is you. So go get him and hit the road. " Flint took the box of crackers and stood up. He pushed his brother's arm down under his shirt and held it there. Now that he'd been fed, Clint would be asleep in a few minutes; unless he was called upon, all he basically did was eat and sleep.

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