Peter Farris Livres

À quatorze ans, Jesse Pelham vient de perdre son père à la suite d’une chute mortelle dans le vaste domaine de Géorgie qui appartient à sa famille depuis des générations. Accablé, il va errer dans les bois et se rend sur les lieux du drame. Là, il fait la rencontre de Billy, un vagabond affamé traqué depuis des années par le FBI. Une troublante amitié naît alors entre cet homme au passé meurtrier et le jeune garçon solitaire. Mais lorsque Billy révèle à Jesse les circonstances louches de l’accident dont il a été le témoin, le monde du garçon s’effondre une deuxième fois. Désormais, tous ceux qui l’entourent sont des suspects à commencer par sa belle-mère et son oncle, un prêcheur cynique et charismatique. Alors que le piège se referme, Jesse se tourne vers Billy.

For Fans of Brian Panowich and Ron Rash. Southern Noir at its finest, The Devil Himself, sizzles with page-burning suspense and bewitching characters. Deep in the forest of South Georgia, barely eighteen-year-old Maya narrowly escapes a savage end. The victim of a vast human trafficking operation managed out of Mexico, Maya had the misfortune to discover the dark plans of a high-ranking client. Her fate seemed sealed, until Leonard Moye, a lonely eccentric who tolerates no one on his land, takes the young woman under his protection. Both having lived lives that have left deep scars, each consumed by anger, they soon develop a bond that makes them, as a pair, a formidable foe, even for hardened criminals and professional scumbags. Maya knows too much and the old man lives on land in the crosshairs of narco machinations. As the heavies seek to finish the job, they find they may be no match for the resourcefulness of a disturbed old man and a cunning young woman. Written with a skilled combination of breakneck pace and mind-searing detail, Farris has created a wicked and compassionate novel of redemption. First published in France with enormous critical acclaim and winning multiple literary awards, The Devil Himself will mark Peter Farris as a major crime writer in America as well.