A great story in great prose, a story that keeps you turning pages even as you want to slow to savor them, full of characters who are real because they are so unlikely - New York Times Book Review on Citrus CountyDark, funny and surprising - MetroBrandon draws his characters so deftly that we can be horrified and intrigued by them at once, and his plot just as deftly avoids cliches - St Petersburg TimesJohn Brandon is a great young writer who can - and probably will - do just about anything - San Francisco ChronicleJohn Brandon is my favourite new writer. This is a writer to watch, to reread, and to envy - Tom Franklin