THOMAS H. COOK was born in Fort Payne, Alabama. He has been nominated for Edgar Awards seven times in five different categories. He received the Best Novel Edgar, the Barry for Best Novel, and has been nominated for numerous other awards.
"In this tightly coiled, intellectual drama, Cook (The Chatham
School Affair) unwinds a marvelously tense story of belated
redemption. While in St. Louis for a book tour, Luke Paige, a
middle-aged writer of lackluster histories, agrees to meet with a
long-forgotten acquaintance, the "little hayseed tramp" he believes
triggered a bloody tragedy that befell his family decades earlier.
The story alternates between Luke's recollections of his hometown;
the "heady ambition" of the despicably cruel, contemptuous younger
Luke, who wants to go to Harvard and gets swept up "in the lethal
tide of [his] own grand dream"; and the numb, disillusioned
academic who sits down for a drink with Lola Faye Gilroy. A
vertiginous precipice eventually materializes in front of Luke, who
must finally confront the true nature of his fatherâ (TM)s heinous
murder and its equally tragic aftermath. The younger Luke is
without a doubt one of the more convincing modern villains, a
single-minded overachiever devoured by raging oedipal loathing and
equally consumed by narcissistic ambition."
--Publishers Weekly, STARRED --
In this tightly coiled, intellectual drama, Cook (The Chatham School Affair) unwinds a marvelously tense story of belated redemption. While in St. Louis for a book tour, Luke Page, a middle-aged writer of lackluster histories, agrees to meet with a long-forgotten acquaintance, the "little hayseed tramp" he believes triggered a bloody tragedy that befell his family decades earlier. The story alternates between Luke's recollections of his hometown; the "heady ambition" of the despicably cruel, contemptuous younger Luke, who wants to go to Harvard and gets swept up "in the lethal tide of [his] own grand dream"; and the numb, disillusioned academic who sits down for a drink with Lola Faye Gilroy. A vertiginous precipice eventually materializes in front of Luke, who must finally confront the true nature of his father's heinous murder and its equally tragic aftermath. The younger Luke is without a doubt one of the more convincing modern villains, a single-minded overachiever devoured by raging oedipal loathing and equally consumed by narcissistic ambition. (Aug.) Copyright 2010 Reed Business Information.
"In this tightly coiled, intellectual drama, Cook (The
Chatham School Affair) unwinds a marvelously tense story of
belated redemption. While in St. Louis for a book tour, Luke Paige,
a middle-aged writer of lackluster histories, agrees to meet with a
long-forgotten acquaintance, the "little hayseed tramp" he believes
triggered a bloody tragedy that befell his family decades earlier.
The story alternates between Luke's recollections of his hometown;
the "heady ambition" of the despicably cruel, contemptuous younger
Luke, who wants to go to Harvard and gets swept up "in the lethal
tide of [his] own grand dream"; and the numb, disillusioned
academic who sits down for a drink with Lola Faye Gilroy. A
vertiginous precipice eventually materializes in front of Luke, who
must finally confront the true nature of his fathera (TM)s heinous
murder and its equally tragic aftermath. The younger Luke is
without a doubt one of the more convincing modern villains, a
single-minded overachiever devoured by raging oedipal loathing and
equally consumed by narcissistic ambition."
--Publishers Weekly, STARRED --
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