The harder they come
Boyle, T. Coraghessan2016
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Sten Stenson, Vietnam veteran and retired school principal, and his wife, Carolee, are on a cruise in Costa Rica when their coach excursion is hijacked. Sten's military training overtakes him and within moments one of the attackers lies dead. The rest flee and Sten finds himself hailed a hero by the tour group and everyone back home. Meanwhile, in the redwood forests north of San Francisco, Sara is arrested after failing to cooperate with police at a routine stop. A chance meeting with twenty-five-year-old Adam, Sten and Carolee's unstable son, sparks a strange but passionate relationship fuelled by a mutual hatred of the law. Adam, an angry and misunderstood outsider has an unhealthy obsession with nineteenth-century mountain man John Colter. As Adam's views and behaviour become steadily more extreme, he descends into a spiral of fanatical violence that is impossible for his family or Sara to halt.
Main title:
The harder they come / T. Coraghessan Boyle.
Author:
Boyle, T. Coraghessan, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2016.London : Bloomsbury, 2016.
Collation:
384 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2015.
ISBN:
9781408859957 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6FICTION
Language:
English
BRN:
2294029