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Greaves, C. Joseph

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ISBN 10: 1620400693 ISBN 13: 9781620400692

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2013

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In May 1934, outside of Hugo, Oklahoma, a homeless man and his thirteen-year-old daughter are befriended by a charismatic drifter, newly released from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. The drifter, Clint Palmer, lures father and daughter to Texas, where the father, Dillard Garrett, mysteriously disappears, and where his daughter, Lucile, begins a one-year ordeal as Palmer's captive on a crime spree-culminating in the notorious Greenville, Texas, "skeleton murder" trial of 1935.

C. Joseph Greaves weaves a chilling tale of survival and redemption, encompassing iconic landscapes, historic figures, America's last Indian uprising, and one of the most celebrated criminal trials of the Public Enemy era, all rooted in the intensely personal story of a young girl's coming of age in a world as cruel as it is beautiful.

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Review:

Now and again you discover a thriller that sweeps you off your feet. This is one (Daily Mail)

A gritty, gripping read, and one that begs to be put on film (Los Angeles Times)

A superb first novel ... Written in a style that is the prose equivalent of a Dorothea Lange photograph ... Extraordinarily moving reading (Guardian)

Greaves's deft prose twinkles like Okie campfires (in the night). Storytelling at its most compelling: raw, yet tender and as dangerous as warm moonshine breath on a young girl's neck (Sir Alan Parker, director of Bugsy Malone and The Life of David Gale)

For crime lovers who want a genuinely gripping read (Glamour)

A riveting and stylistically stripped-down tale ... Subtle, seductive writing ... His evocation of place is something to behold (Big Issue)

A taut and intriguing thriller (Sunday Times)

Book Description:

A true saga of innocence and evil, survival and redemption, set in the Depression-era American West

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