A Single Shot
Published on 15. September 2011
288 pages
978-1-4447-2944-3 (ISBN)
Description
Anyone's life can change in an instant. In Matthew F. Jones's acclaimed novel, one man's world is overturned with a single shot. Trespassing on what was once his family's land, John Moon hears a rustle in the brush and fires. But instead of the deer he was expecting, he finds the body of a young woman, killed by his stray bullet. A terrible dilemma is made worse when he stumbles upon her campground - and the piles of drugs and money concealed there. Moon makes his choice: he hides the corpse, and takes the cash. His decision will have consequences he can neither predict or control.
Reviews / Votes
A backwoods drama that is part Crime and Punishment, part Deliverance, and all white-knuckled suspense...it packs a helluva punch * <i>People</i> * A harrowing literary thriller...a powerful blend of love and violence, of the grotesque and the tender. * <i>New York Times Book Review</i> * A terrific novel...you can hardly breathe while you're reading this book....his crisis evokes every palm-sweating, heart-stopping, seemingly undoable mistake you've ever made * <i>Los Angeles Times</i> * A harrowing, high-voltage thriller...A gritty, claustrophobic blend of Jim Thompson and James Dickey. * <i>Publishers Weekly</i> * Jones owns a fine writer's eye for the kind of details that matter. * <i>Washington Post</i> * Breathtakingly good...With a supreme sense of place and marvellously drawn characters, especially Moon, there's that sense of destiny and despair that haunts the finest noir, including, of course, James M Cain's majestic The Postman Always Rings Twice. The comparison is entirely apt. * Daily Mail *More details
Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,33 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4447-2944-3 (9781444729443)
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Matthew F. Jones
A Single Shot
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09/2011
Mulholland Books
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Person
Matthew F. Jones is the author of six critically acclaimed novels as well as a number of screenplays, including adaptations of two of his novels Boot Tracks and A SINGLE SHOT. Another of his novels, Deepwater, was made into a film in 2005. He was born in Boston and grew up on a farm in rural upstate New York. He now lives with his family in Charlottesville, Virginia.
