Synopsis
When young Harry Crane stumbles upon a mutilated body in the local river bottoms, the region beomes trapped in a nightmare of fear and racial tension, as a vicious serial killer stalks the town, a man is lynched, and local law enforcement races against time to find the murderer, in a suspenseful tale set in Depression-era East Texas. Reprint.
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Review
"Wondrous...dark enchantment."
--"New York Times Book Review"
"Terrific suspense...equal parts morality tale and page-turning thriller."
--"Denver Post"
"Lansdale subtly but surely traces how race hatred can embitter, poison, and often physically destroy those who fall under its sway."
--"Philadelphia Inquirer"
"Lansdale creates many colorful and vivid characters. . . . The Bottoms tells a great yarn of a vanished place and time."
-"-Bookreporter""
"Wondrous...dark enchantment."
--New York Times Book Review
--Denver Post "Lansdale subtly but surely traces how race hatred can embitter, poison, and often physically destroy those who fall under its sway."
--Philadelphia Inquirer "Lansdale creates many colorful and vivid characters. . . . The Bottoms tells a great yarn of a vanished place and time."
--Bookreporter
Book Description
To Kill a Mockingbird meets The Grapes of Wrath meets The Silence of the Lambs.
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