Red Grass River - Blake, James Carlos
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A powerful historical saga of family loyalties and frontier spirit -- of blood feuds and betrayed friendships -- this is the legend of two men. John Ashley is a criminal, a folk hero, whose family hacked out a home in the merciless grass river world of the Florida Everglades at the turn of the century. Deputy Bobby Baker is a lawman born of lawmen. As youths, they were close companions. As men, they are the most bitter of enemies. When John breaks out of prison where he was being held for killing a man, he begins his life of bank robbing, rum running, and turf battles with the Chicago mob. As…mehr

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A powerful historical saga of family loyalties and frontier spirit -- of blood feuds and betrayed friendships -- this is the legend of two men. John Ashley is a criminal, a folk hero, whose family hacked out a home in the merciless grass river world of the Florida Everglades at the turn of the century. Deputy Bobby Baker is a lawman born of lawmen. As youths, they were close companions. As men, they are the most bitter of enemies. When John breaks out of prison where he was being held for killing a man, he begins his life of bank robbing, rum running, and turf battles with the Chicago mob. As the 20th century encroaches and the Everglades are grudging way to the rising boom town of Miami, Bobby Baker selentlessly pursues his sworn goal of bringing Ashley to justice -- an obsession that will force him to make a devastating moral decision that could destroy him as well as his adversary.
James Carlos Blake is a masterful chronicler of the restless, outcast, the lawless, and the lonelyheart. His previous novel, In the Rogue Blood, was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Now he has written a powerful and rousing historical saga of family loyalties, blood feuds, and betrayed friendships; of bank robberies and bootlegging; and of a passionate love as wild at heart as the Everglades. It is the story of sworn enemies: John Ashley, a criminal and folk hero, the brightest star in a family destined to become the most notorious in south Florida; and Bobby Baker, a lawman born of lawmen, a violent, hard-hearted man driven by the searing memory of past affronts and the enduring hatreds the engendered. Ashley and Maker will clash many times over many decades. And as the twentieth century encroaches on their world--and the wildlands give grudging way to the rising boomtown of Miami--a feral, sensual mating will place one man in gravest peril...while his adversary contrives a dark, personal vengeance that could leave countless lives--his own included--in ruin.
Autorenporträt
James Carlos Blake is the author of nine novels. Among his literary honors are the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Southwest Book Award, Quarterly West Novella Prize, and Chautauqua South Book Award. He lives in Arizona.