<div>An Ozarks rancher takes a desperate gamble in this searing novel from &ldquo;one of the truly great American writers of the 20th century&rdquo; (The Guardian). Bob Blanchard spent his entire inheritance on a cattle ranch in the Missouri Ozarks&mdash;but it hasn&rsquo;t turned out the way he&rsquo;d hoped, and he&rsquo;s now being threatened with foreclosure. The cattle are sick, and the herd can&rsquo;t survive, so Blanchard agrees to a reckless scheme to sell the cattle before their illness is widely known. But when a faked cattle rustling and an insurance scam goes wrong, the plan begins to crumble from the inside out. &ldquo;A commanding writer of unusual delicacy and power.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker &ldquo;A born storyteller.&rdquo; &mdash;St. Louis Post-Dispatch</div>

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Black Angus

<div>The basis for the Australian film&mdash;a powerful novel of family ruin and redemption from &ldquo;a born storyteller&rdquo; (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Wanted as a material witness in a drug-smuggling case, Greg Kendall is hiding out at his family&rsquo;s old Chicago home. While there, he finds himself thinking about his long dead siblings, older brother Cliff and twin sister Kate. The two died in a car crash years before, and as Greg revisits and relives the memories of his childhood, he awakens long-buried secrets from the family&rsquo;s past&mdash;including memories of his relationship with his twin that were better left undisturbed. &ldquo;A commanding writer of unusual power and delicacy.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker &ldquo;A born storyteller.&rdquo; &mdash;St. Louis Post-Dispatch</div>

Beautiful Kate

<div>A harrowing thriller from the author of the acclaimed Cutter and Bone, &ldquo;one of the truly great American writers of the 20th century&rdquo; (The Guardian). After losing his wife, his parents, and his family farm, Tom Kohl is staying with his cousin Ken in Seattle as he tries to put his life back together. But things only go from bad to worse when Ken kills a man in a hit-and-run&mdash;a man who turns out to be the brother of Tony Jack Giacalone, Seattle&rsquo;s top mobster. Out of loyalty to his cousin, Tom agrees to help cover up the killing. But when he&rsquo;s spotted ditching the car by a cocktail waitress&mdash;who happens to be the girlfriend of a low-level mobster&mdash;the stakes only get higher, and Tom must face what he&rsquo;s willing to do for family when his life is on the line. &ldquo;[A] taut tale, in language as well as in action, with suspense stretched wiretight.&rdquo; &mdash;The Christian Science Monitor &ldquo;Swift prose and guaranteed action.&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times</div>

The Lion at the Door

<div>A post-apocalyptic doomsday novel from&ldquo;one of the truly great American writers of the 20th century&rdquo; (The Guardian). In the dystopian future, the government has collapsed, cities are burning, and a roving gang called Mau Mau is marauding across America. A drifter named Walter Stone finds refuge at a lakeside camp, where the survivors of a plane crash have met up with other refugees, and are struggling with a constantly changing cast of leaders, as well as limited supplies. Across the lake stands the palatial Valhalla, a mansion well supplied with food and ammunition, where a wealthy junkman and his daughters live. The goal is to take control of Valhalla. The obstacles are certain death across the lake, rootless bands of killers threatening the camp, and a way of life that is quickly slipping away. &ldquo;A commanding writer of unusual power and delicacy.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker &ldquo;A born storyteller.&rdquo; &mdash;St. Louis Post-Dispatch</div>

Valhalla

<div>Brothers clash over the woman they both love in this provocative thriller by &ldquo;one of the truly great American writers of the 20th century&rdquo; (The Guardian). A classic bad seed and his good-guy brother fall in love with the same woman. Wild man Brian demolishes a movie set to get revenge against the studio he feels is defaming him. As Brian rampages from Colorado to Seattle with girlfriend, Eve, in tow, his brother, Charley, follows, unnerved by Brian&rsquo;s increasingly violent behavior. The three are on a crusade ride through mayhem and madness, where one seeks justice, another seeks redemption, but they&rsquo;re all seeking something in the ruins&mdash;each other. Eve&rsquo;s Men is a fascinating trip with a volatile man and those who love him. &ldquo;A commanding writer of unusual delicacy and power.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker &ldquo;A born storyteller.&rdquo; &mdash;St. Louis Post-Dispatch</div>

Eve's Men

<div>A father hunts the serial killer stalking his daughter in this twisted thriller by &ldquo;one of the best writers of his generation&rdquo; (The Guardian). Jimbo Slade, a drug dealer and prostitute, is also a suspect in a number of rapes and murders in Seattle. He&rsquo;s outwitted the police and justice system before, but when the brutal killer targets teenager Kathy Baird, her father takes matters into his own hands. Turning the tables, Jack Baird slowly wins Slade&rsquo;s trust, and soon he finds himself sharing Slade&rsquo;s lifestyle&mdash;cruising the city&rsquo;s sewers, lying to his family and the cops. He knows he can trust no one&mdash;not with the ruthless justice he has planned. &ldquo;Thornburg is such an accomplished writer and the story so complex that the reader is left with much to ponder . . . Not an easy book to forget.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal &ldquo;A chilling tour of society&rsquo;s sleazy underside.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Gripping.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;A commanding writer of unusual delicacy and power.&rdquo; &mdash;The New Yorker</div>

A Man's Game

<div>While investigating his son&rsquo;s suspicious death, a father descends into darkness in this thriller by &ldquo;a commanding writer of unusual delicacy and power&rdquo; (The New Yorker). The police call on David Hook at his farm in Illinois, telling him his son Chris has committed suicide. But David knows something else must have happened in California to lead to Chris&rsquo;s death. Diving into his son&rsquo;s life, David discovers political corruption, immorality, and evil that shocks him to his very core. But it also awakens something lurking within, something David enjoys . . . something that poses an even bigger threat to those who hurt his son. &ldquo;One of the truly great American writers of the 20th Century.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;Has an instant grab.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;A born storyteller.&rdquo; &mdash;St. Louis Post Dispatch </div>

To Die in California

<div>&ldquo;A thriller, and a whacking good thriller, too . . . shows how much can be done within a classic form by a writer who knows his business.&rdquo;&mdash;The New York Times Alex Cutter is a scarred and crippled Vietnam veteran, obsessed with a murder he&rsquo;s convinced his buddy, Richard Bone, witnessed. That it was committed by the powerful tycoon JJ Wolfe only makes Cutter even surer that Bone saw the unthinkable. Captivated by Cutter&rsquo;s demented logic, Bone is prepared to cross the country with Cutter in search of proof of the murder. Their quest takes them into the Ozarks&mdash;home base of the Wolfe empire&mdash;where Bone discovers that Cutter is pursuing both a cold-blooded killer, but also an even bigger and more elusive enemy. &ldquo;Tense, funny, and despairing . . . charged with a passion that makes even grotesques seem likeable and, more important, credible right up to the last, startling sentence.&rdquo;&mdash;Time &ldquo;May be the quintessential cult crime classic . . . continues to be cited by other writers as groundbreaking . . . The ending is pure Chinatown, with a dose of Easy Rider, and it leaves us reeling.&rdquo;&mdash;Booklist (starred review) Praise for Newton Thornburg &ldquo;A commanding writer of unusual delicacy and power.&rdquo;&mdash;The New Yorker &ldquo;A born storyteller.&rdquo;&mdash;St. Louis Post-Dispatch &ldquo;One of the truly great American writers of the 20th century.&rdquo;&mdash;The Guardian</div>

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Books By Newton Thornburg (8 Books)

Black Angus

Beautiful Kate

The Lion at the Door

Valhalla

Eve's Men

A Man's Game

To Die in California

Cutter and Bone

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