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Zusatztext "The voice is Southern and oh so charming in This Dark Road to Mercy ! a crime novel that's also a road movie and a baseball tale and a wicked twist on Sixth-Grade Father-Daughter Night." Informationen zum Autor Wiley Cash is the New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind Than Home , the acclaimed This Dark Road to Mercy , and most recently The Last Ballad . He is a three-time winner of the SIBA Southern Book Prize, won the Conroy Legacy Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and has been nominated for many more. A native of North Carolina, he is the Alumni Author-in-Residence at the University of North Carolina Asheville. He lives in Wilmington, NC with his wife, photographer Mallory Cash, and their two daughters. Klappentext Hailed as "mesmerizing" ( New York Times Book Review ) and "as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird " ( Richmond Times-Dispatch )! A Land More Kind Than Home made Wiley Cash an instant literary sensation. His resonant new novel! This Dark Road to Mercy ! is a tale of love and atonement! blood and vengeance! a story that involves two young sisters! a wayward father! and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins. When their mother dies unexpectedly! twelve-year-old Easter Quillby and her six-year-old sister! Ruby! are shuffled into the foster care system in Gastonia! North Carolina! a little town not far from the Appalachian Mountains. But just as they settle into their new life! their errant father! Wade! an ex–minor league baseball player whom they haven't seen in years! suddenly reappears and steals them away in the middle of the night. Brady Weller! the girls' court-appointed guardian! begins looking for Wade! and quickly turns up unsettling information linking him to a multimillion-dollar robbery. But Brady isn't the only one hunting him. Also on the trail is Robert Pruitt! a mercurial man nursing a years-old vendetta! a man determined to find Wade and claim what he believes he is owed. The combination of Cash's evocative and intimate Southern voice and those of the alternating narrators! Easter! Brady! and Pruitt! brings this soulful story vividly to life. At once captivating and heartbreaking! This Dark Road to Mercy is a testament to the unbreakable bonds of family and the primal desire to outrun a past that refuses to let go. Zusammenfassung The critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller A Land More Kind Than Home —hailed as "a powerfully moving debut that reads as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird " ( Richmond Times Dispatch )—returns with a resonant novel of love and atonement! blood and vengeance! set in western North Carolina! involving two young sisters! a wayward father! and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins. After their mother's unexpected death! twelve-year-old Easter and her six-year-old sister Ruby are adjusting to life in foster care when their errant father! Wade! suddenly appears. Since Wade signed away his legal rights! the only way he can get his daughters back is to steal them away in the night. Brady Weller! the girls' court-appointed guardian! begins looking for Wade! and he quickly turns up unsettling information linking Wade to a recent armored car heist! one with a whopping $14.5 million missing. But Brady Weller isn't the only one hunting the desperate father. Robert Pruitt! a shady and mercurial man nursing a years-old vendetta! is also determined to find Wade and claim his due. Narrated by a trio of alternating voices! This Dark Road to Mercy is a story about the indelible power of family and the primal desire to outrun a past that refuses to let go. <...
