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Bloodstained Kings

by Tim Willocks

ISBN: 0679450092
ISBN-13: 9780679450092
Format: Hardcover

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A story of obsession, betrayal, and revenge, set in New Orleans and the rural South. It is about a son in pursuit of his father, a mother in pursuit of her lost daughter, and many people in pursuit of money and power.

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"'Green River Rising', Tim Willocks's first success, was, as much as anything, a spectacular piece of cinema in print....Yet the book was also much more than this. Within this undeniably engrossing style Willocks also produced an investigation of the darker aspect of the human psyche....His new novel, 'Bloodstained Kings', contains the same dense psychological complexity; like is predecessor, it is turbulent and captivating reading."
At the same time Willocks has not lost his touch on the large canvas. His characters are again effectively genre stereotypes, although certainly none the worse for it. This time they are derived more from the crime thriller: the meltable ice maiden, the overambitious young city attorney and his seedy private dick sidekick, the huge, crazy-eyed, hooch-drinking pilot and the fast-adapting innocent, thrust into events against his best judgement. Many of these clichés are consciously employed by Willocks in his attempt to unravel the conventions with which we inure ourselves to the violence around us."    -- Christian Spurrier

   -- Literary Review

"The dead have a lot of trouble staying dead here, and the living spend an inordinate amount of time exploring fine points of moral philosophy, but for all that this is an utterly captivating tale."

   -- Kirkus

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Random House Inc
Published date: 1998
Size: 6.5 x 10 inches
Weight: 1.4 pounds
Pages: 318

Publisher's Notes

Tim Willockss first book, Green River Rising, earned the kind of reviews that are rarely accorded to most so-called literary thrillers. This remarkable debut was hailed for its rich, powerful writing as well as its dramatic, page-turning suspense. The New York Times Book Review called it "beautifully vivid" and "triumphantly realized," while People called it "as fine a thriller as one could ask for." The authors much-anticipated second novel is as powerful and ambitious as its predecessor. Set in New Orleans and the rural South, it is the story of a chain of cataclysmic events let loose by the murder of Clarence Jefferson, a legendary lawman who has gathered a cache of evidence that could imprison corrupt politicians in five states. His last act, it appears, was to hand-pick two people as the unlucky heirs of his potentially explosive evidence files. The pair must either dispose of them as fast as they can or--at considerable risk to themselves--deliver the files to the authorities. Lenna Parillaud and Dr. Cicero Grimes, Jeffersons "beneficiaries," have never met. Lenna, a millionaire businesswoman, has been racked by grief and rage over the loss of her daughter. Dr. Grimes is a clinically depressed psychiatrist. Though both have burdens enough of their own, they are swept up into this story of southern violence, passion, and vengeance, the likes of which perhaps only the readers of Willocks's previous novel can imagine. Compared by critics to Norman Mailer, James Ellroy, Stephen Hunter, and Andrew Vachss, Willocks offers a unique amalgam of gritty realism and something more--a depth and intensity that is seldom achieved in popular fiction.

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