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ONE DAY YOU KNOW MORE DEAD PEOPLE THAN LIVE ONES.
It's the fall of 1980, eight days before the presidential election that pits a beleaguered hangdog Democrat against a suspiciously sunny Republican. In the Pacific Northwest, a small-time thief named Vince Camden is headed to his witness-protection job at Donut Make You Hungry. But Vince is about to learn that it's not so easy to leave your old self behind --- especially when your old self is being hunted by a killer. Over the next unforgettable week, Vince will find himself enmeshed in a local politician's troubles, torn between a beautiful young law clerk and a neurotic prostitute, playing poker with a not-yet-celebrated New York Mafioso, and looking for redemption in --- of all places --- a voting booth.
CRITICAL PRAISE
"Dispassionate and compassionate by turns, and always engrossing. Walter's best by far."
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Walter [has a] virtuoso command of character and dialogue...With its Capra-like spirit, it serves as a surprisingly satisfying antidote to the avalanche of cynical chatter emanating from this year's political campaigns and commentators."
—Booklist
"Here are characters who seem to live of their own volition, who talk out of a terrible inner need to make themselves known and understood, who reveal not just themselves but the yearning heart of our great flawed democracy."
—Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of EMPIRE FALLS and NOBODY'S FOOL
© Copyright 2005 by ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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