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In the tradition of James Dickeys Deliverance and Charles Fraziers Cold Mountain, bestselling author and award-winning poet James W. Hall has written a literary novel that is also an intricate, suspenseful mysterya story blending the macabre and the historic, the genteel and the aberrant, the violent and the heroic. With his signature mix of brooding atmosphere and compelling action, Hall takes readers deep into Americas own Heart of Darkness. Policewoman Charlotte Monroe has cop instincts. Scratch that. There isnt a name for the gift she has, something that borders on psychic, an ability to read peoples faces and body language like the morning headlinesto size up their intentions and act before they do. Its a real ability that the FBI is trying to teach to its agents.
About the Author
James Wilson Hall is an Edgar and Shamus Award-winning author whose books have been translated into a dozen languages. He has written eighteen novels, four books of poetry, a collection of short stories, and a collection of He also won a John D. MacDonald Award for Excellence in Florida Fiction, presented by the JDM Bibliophile. He has a master??s degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and a doctorate in literature from the University of Utah.
