The Winter Family
Author: Jackman, Clifford
ISBN: 9780804173711
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Apr 2016
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
Noir meets the Western in this hyperkinetic debut novel, which recounts the exploits of the Winter Family band of outlaws over three decades, from its inception in the midst of the Civil War to its final bloody stand in the Oklahoma Territories.
After being court-martialed for their actions during the Civil War, a band of hardened Union soldiers recast themselves as outlaws. Among these twisted men who've found brotherhood in battle are a psychopathic killer, a mean, moronic pair of brothers, an impassive ex-slave, a dangerous child prodigy and, at the malevolent center, their cold, stoic leader: Augustus Winter, a man with an almost pathological resistance to society's rules and a preternatural gift for butchery that is matched only by his eerie charisma.
From political thuggery during a Chicago election to work as bounty hunters in the deserts of Arizona, Winter and his crew follow a grim, borderland morality that plays out, time and again, in ruthless carnage.
ISBN: 9780804173711
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Apr 2016
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback / softback
Noir meets the Western in this hyperkinetic debut novel, which recounts the exploits of the Winter Family band of outlaws over three decades, from its inception in the midst of the Civil War to its final bloody stand in the Oklahoma Territories.
After being court-martialed for their actions during the Civil War, a band of hardened Union soldiers recast themselves as outlaws. Among these twisted men who've found brotherhood in battle are a psychopathic killer, a mean, moronic pair of brothers, an impassive ex-slave, a dangerous child prodigy and, at the malevolent center, their cold, stoic leader: Augustus Winter, a man with an almost pathological resistance to society's rules and a preternatural gift for butchery that is matched only by his eerie charisma.
From political thuggery during a Chicago election to work as bounty hunters in the deserts of Arizona, Winter and his crew follow a grim, borderland morality that plays out, time and again, in ruthless carnage.
