is one of great brutality
She becomes involved with Johnson Johnson in a sometimes deadly
charismatic bandit and the vengeance-sworn son of a deposed duke cross paths as they each lead their own rebellion against the emperor's brutal regime
But the battered Asian girl she turns out to be Vietnamese he finds in the doorway of his basement flat drags him straight back to the old world
spy and counter-spy
The Evening Road Benjamin Percy is one of great brutality'A strange, dazzling novel, as audacious as it is lyrical, that hauls up insight, sorrow, and even somehow wit from the well of American history.' EMMA DONOGHUE 'A vivid, disturbing book, able to subvert itself in half a line, constantly challenging the reader's expectations. Its ghost map is quickly established in the reader's head, and as the characters fade into the margin of the final page, it is as if an inner landscape has altered. It is mature,