A Swollen Red Sun
- Author Matthew McBride
- Narrator John McLain
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 17 June 2014
- Run Time 6 hours and 43 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery fiction.
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What to expect
God, drugs, corruption, and morality come together in this gripping tale of desperation.
In Gasconade County, Missouri—once called the meth capital of the world—Deputy Sheriff Dale Banks discovers $52,000 hidden in the broken-down trailer that Jerry Dean Skaggs uses for cooking crystal. And he takes it. Banks knows what he did was wrong, but he did it for all the right reasons. At least, he thinks so. But for every wrong deed, there is a consequence.
Jerry Dean can't afford to lose that $52,000—he owes it to his partners and to a crooked cop. He also can't afford to disappoint the crazed and fearsome Reverend Butch Pogue, who is expecting Jerry Dean to deliver the chemicals the reverend needs for his next batch of meth. To avoid the holy man's wrath, Jerry Dean sets in motion a series of events that will threaten Banks' family, his life, and everything he thinks he knows about the world.
Critics Review
“Memorable, unique, and, at times, even haunting. Every
character rings true from the feckless to the noble to the downright
frightening…[With] dark country humor, A
Swollen Red Sun is a must-read.”
“Uncompromisingly gritty but surprisingly tender and
quite funny…McBride’s novel combines the backwoods creepiness of Nic
Pizzolatto’s HBO series True Detective,
the understated country humor of Johnny Shaw’s Big Maria, and the sensitivity to character and nuance of Daniel
Woodrell’s Winter’s Bone.”
“Rough and
ready suspense, encompassing a wide array of characters from the sour
side of life, and smashing them together with vigorous and blunt prose.”
“This novel has it all: guns, corruption, immorality, all fused together in a blistering narrative.”
“A Swollen Red Sun,
simply put, is an epic piece of modern crime fiction. But within that, McBride
never loses his sense of powerful intimacy with the characters, their lives,
their families, and their demons.”
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