The American dream has deep America as its counterpart. Something like black Spain. And it is that each country has its dirty laundry, its spaces shaded by the most unsuspected circumstances that bring out the most gloomy version of the human. For Tom bouman this kind of thriller In the USA case, it has an aftertaste of Road Novel where the car has already been parked for days and the end of the trip seems to guide us to the starting point like a concentric obsession.
An obsession from which it is very difficult to escape for a war veteran with the 1.000-kilometer gaze or for an official fed up with a life stamping official documents. That is the deep America or the black Spain, the soul of an ordinary citizen who ends up dragging his entire closest community into his darkness of black hole ...
As a Somali war veteran and recent widower, Officer Henry Farrell hoped that by moving to the small town of Wild Thyme in Pennsylvania, he would be able to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, and afternoons playing Irish violin music from others. time.
Instead, it has witnessed a double invasion - by hydraulic fracturing companies and by drug traffickers - that has brought both money and serious problems to the area. In addition, when an eccentric old man discovers a mutilated body on his land, the investigation will force Farrell to enter the desolate snowy landscapes of the Appalachians, where, for generations, secrets and disputes have also been part of the family heritage ...
In the words of Kiko ama, country noir is «a hard and firm and proletarian literature, where the place is everything, they go badly for everyone and things are taken to their logical consequence (generally dire). There is a terrible sense of predestination in the stories. A volatile environment, like when a fight is about to break out. And that's exactly what this novel offers us, a free lung dive into the darkest and wildest side of contemporary America.
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