The King of Gaheena

During the six months following the fiery Fourth of July deaths of his parents in a car wreck, Calvin Turtle, 20-year-old heir to a Louisville playing card company, attempts to manage the family business and his father's vast hunting preserve in Gaheena, Arkansas, all the while being force to fight charges that he killed his parents. Calvin's struggle to comprehend and master a world of good, evil and indifference culminates in a snaky quagmire where he battles a man named Karl who epitomizes raw, guiltless power. In a compelling 1970's tale that contrasts normalcy, whatever that may be, against the paradoxes in nature and humanity, THE KING OF GAHEENA reflects the very heart of a troubled American generation. From the opening deal to the final play of the cards, Calvin's obsessive odyssey is shot through with stout doses of confrontation and loss, love and lust, violence and wonder, longing and learning, rediscovery and redemption. www.MotesBooks.com