The Last Sanctuary: A Novel - Softcover

Holden, Craig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385333552 ISBN 13: 9780385333559

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

At once a heart-pounding , chillingly realistic thriller and a dark plunge into the human psyche, The Last Sanctuary is the tale of an innocent man accused of murder.

When a killing is falsely blamed on Joe Curtis, a Gulf War veteran living on the edge of society, he hides in a dark underworld of armed militias and terrorist cults, running from the cops, federal agents, and from his own tortured soul. In a cat-and-mouse chase across soaring mountains and vast glaciers of Alaska, the complex relationship between the fugitive and his nemesis, a female Native American ATF agent, is rendered unpredictably and superbly.

About this title

From the Publisher:

From the author whose literary debut, The River Sorrow, was hailed by The New York Times as "a haunting, highly original thriller [with] one powerful surprise after another" comes a riveting new novel that could have come from today's headlines--at once a heart-pounding, chillingly realistic thriller and a dark, complex plunge into the human psyche.

Rarely has a first novel received the kind of extraordinary critical acclaim garnered by The River Sorrow, Craig Holden's spellbinding tale of an innocent man accused of murder, caught in a nightmare of terror and survival.

With The Last Sanctuary, Holden dazzles us once again with a mesmerizing thriller that introduces another good, ordinary man turned fugitive--this time a Gulf War veteran living on the edge of society, falsely accused of murder and plunged into America's dark underworld of armed militias and terrorist cults, running from the cops, federal agents--and from his own tortured soul.

The cat and mouse chase across North America's last wilderness--the soaring mountains and glacier-strewn shores of Alaska--is brilliantly cinematic. The complex relationship between the fugitive, Joe Curtis, and his nemesis, a female Native American ATF agent, is superbly rendered and utterly unpredictable. And the novel, at once nerve-shattering and beautifully written, is as topical as Waco and Oklahoma City--and as universal as our own worst nightmares.The Last Sanctuary by Craig Holden. Copyright ©1996 by Craig Holden. Excerpted by permission of the Delacorte Press, animprint of Dell Publishing, a division of the Bantam Doubleday Dell PublishingGroup, Inc.

About the Author:

Craig Holden was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. He graduated from the University of Montana with an MFA, and is the author of The River Sorrow and The Jazz Bird. He lives in New Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385333552
• ISBN 13: 9780385333559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432