Promised Land
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- Uscita prevista: 11 feb 2027
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- 8,99 €
Descrizione dell’editore
From Edgar Award-winning author Henry Wise comes a decisive sequel where word is bond—until the past threatens to break it.
this forceful sequel to Holy City brims with Wiseʻs trademark examination of the pathos and ethos of small-town life, the equal weights of grief and hatred.
As detectives in a missing persons case search for answers, the sum of their investigation illuminates the hard fact that there is a price for progress, and a cost for living by the code. Powerful and complex, the novel observes the gravity of the past, the momentum of sin, and the impossibility of salvation.
'A new master of Southern gothic.' Kirkus Reviews
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The mysterious disappearance of Georgia swamp-dweller Lucas "Rainbo" Boon creates a pressure cooker of conflict in Edgar winner Wise's expert sequel to Holy City. After Rainbo's truck is found crashed and bloodstained in the Snakefoot swamp, Sheriff Mills launches an investigation with the help of his deputies, Will Seems and Tania Jameson. As the search party—including Rainbo's troubled teenage grandson, Buck, and Buck's anxious mother, Diane—plunges into the treacherous swamp, already-strained family bonds among Rainbo's kin fray further. Eventually, Buck and a local woman named Arlene Davis, both skilled trackers, lead Will to a remote camp where chilling discoveries deepen the mystery. When Rainbo is found gravely wounded and the FBI uncovers his hidden identity, the investigation draws the surrounding community into a web of betrayal and violence that puts Buck in harm's way. Wise's vivid evocation of the Southern landscape and nuanced cast of flawed, fully realized characters imbue his sophomore novel with brooding suspense and emotional depth, solidifying him as a formidable voice in literary crime fiction. It's a home run.
