Bad Land Preface evil lord of the rats

evil lord of the rats

But when a fellow rider is brutally murdered a pitchfork driven through his chest Masons racing life soon becomes all too close to his working life

Along with Detective Sergeant Khalid Ali

Within days the axe could fall on the neck of Mary Queen of Scots

this novel of multiple narratives formally daring

Bad Land Preface evil lord of the ratsSeduced by the government's offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of this century. Raban's stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate reality behind the homesteader's dream strips away the myth while preserving the romance that has shrouded our understanding of our own heartland.