ASIN: B00V7NOFR8
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 560
Lee Dillon Ford, put simply, is a loser. He's a 32 year-old, barely-functional alcoholic day laborer in Portland, Oregon, whose debaucherous lifestyle of cheap liquor, cheaper women, and as little responsibility as he can manage is abruptly interrupted when his estranged half-brother Barrett is pulled dead from the gray-brown waters of the Willamette River. The police are calling it suicide. But a voice mail left on Lee's phone by the boy only minutes before his death would seem to suggest otherwise. Driven by a compulsion to discover the truth when everyone else is willing to ignore it, Lee embarks on a hunt to find out about the brother he hardly knew, tracing his movements to a farming collective outside the city composed of hippies, activists, slackers, runaways, addicts and criminals, all led by the enigmatic Edlund Boggs, an ex-soldier now calling himself a Prophet of Mother, the ...
