Publisher's Synopsis
A crime story with southern gothic overtones which centers on thirty-something Josh Devlin, a failed journalist who, after a year of wandering, winds up in a Kentucky homeless shelter on a wintry December day. Josh comes upon a runaway named Alice holed up in an abandoned boxcar. Taken with her plight, and dejected over his own squandered life, Josh takes her back to Memphis, trying to get back on his feet while seeking a solution to Alice's troubles. A Delta bluesman's checkered past comes into play, and inevitably Josh finds himself on a collision course with a backwoods tracker fixated on the Civil War and, by extension, the machinations of the governor-elect of. Mississippi--past sins have finally come due in the present.
