GONE SOUTH

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Summary: Redemption, prejudice and action.
Review: This was the last McCammon novel to be published, and it was done so in 1992. Not exactly his best novel but far from being a bad one either. A man who commits a murder in a moment of blind rage finds himself pursued by two bounty hunters who are very peculiar. One has a third arm and a head coming out of his chest and the other is the second coming of Elvis Presley. They pursue this man, Dan Lambert who is in his last years of life after getting leukemia from Agent Orange poisoning and who is paired up with a girl named Arden Halliday who would be a beauty were it not for the port-wine stain covering half her face. Arden goes on to pursue the "Bright Girl", supposedly a faith healer who would remove the port wine stain from her. Dan ends up being in charge of Arden and both are pursued by the bounty hunters and the police. The bounty hunters, in turn, are pursued by drug dealers. Theres a lot of chasing going on all through the book and theres a heavy dramati! c accent to it as well. Its a pretty good read, but not on par with Boy's Life or Swan Song, two absolute classics of McCammon's. If you like him, you nevertheless should read him.

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Summary: GONE SOUTH IS A GREAT BAYOU TALE!
Review: Why oh why have I waited so long to read this author's works? I always ask myself this question when I finish another one of this man's brilliant story-telling books. This very versatile writer writes totally different tales in each and every book, and that is a pure breath of fresh air for this reader. In GONE SOUTH, a tortured man's past and his present predictament clash, and Dan Lambert is caught in a web of murder and running from the law, bounty hunters, and from himself deep into the louisiana bayous. The two bounty hunters are very different and interesting to read about. The very strangeness and bizarre are very apparent in this sojourn into the heart and soul of finding redemption. There is lots of thrills and spills as well as some action and adventure that was very well put together and enjoyable to read. This is a must read.