Len Joy

They had a parade for Darwin Burr when his team won the state title. He’s coasted through life on that memory. Still lives in Claxton, Illinois – but the bucolic farm town now simmers with racial tension. He has a cushy job working for his wheeler-dealer, boyhood friend, Billy Rourke. He has a c...

A compulsively readable novel that will be easy to devour in one marathon sitting. — Kirkus Reviews, Star Review Jake Doyle used to be famous. Twenty years ago, his Chicago political column was syndicated in two hundred papers, but he had an affair — and a son — with his intern, and lost it...