Tread - Softcover

Lindemuth, Clayton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692252479 ISBN 13: 9780692252475

Publisher: Hardgrave Enterprises, 2014

Synopsis

On the run from an unplanned murder of a law enforcement officer at his camp outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, Nat Cinder blazes to Phoenix on his Triumph Rocket. Soon he stumbles onto a packet of photos showing Governor Virginia Rentier lustily paired with three high-ranking women in state government.Though Cinder and the Governor clashed sixteen years before when his wife died in a car accident, Cinder prefers to keep his dislike of Rentier focused on her politics. He's too busy blaming himself for his wife's death, fighting his way back into his son's life, and leading a crew of lazy secessionist misfits to become involved in an intrigue about the Governor's sex partners. But when the bullets fly, Nat asks questions, and learns that his sudden war with the Governor traces back sixteen years. And that the photos were put in his path by a provocateur who knows Nat Cinder's a rough-hewn rebel with enough weaponry cached across Arizona to start a revolution, and that the secret at the bottom of his wife's death will turn him into a powder keg. TREAD is what fans of Clayton Lindemuth's "thrilling, visceral, and unsparing" prose (Publishers Weekly) have been waiting for: a novel that pairs his lean noir voice with the explosive tempo of the modern political thriller.

About this title

From the Author

TREAD started out as an experiment. I wanted to write a novel without any exposition. It was all going to be action and dialogue. I figured everything else was the boring stuff that people wanted to skip anyway....
 
After a couple rewrites it dawned on me that exposition, sometimes, rarely but sometimes, can be useful. It smooths out a bumpy ride. It lets a reader catch her breath. So I added a couple words here and there to slow it down. Not many.TREAD is nonstop. It'll keep you guessing, but most important, you'll never make it through two paragraphs in a row and wonder, when is something going to happen. Just like Grease is the word, TREAD is what's happening.Enjoy.

From the Inside Flap

Clayton Lindemuth's works have been smashingly well reviewed by Publishers Weekly (starred review and best of the week), Kirkus, Seattle Book Review, Manhattan Book Review, Indie Reader, Foreword, Chicks Dig Books, Indie Next List, Dec. 2012), Spinetingler Magazine, Hardboiled Wonderland, various independent best of the year mentions, (DoSomeDamage, among others) and now published in France and charmingly reviewed by Le Monde, La Croix, Le Figaro, and most appreciatedly, by bloggers and tweeters like you, everywhere.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hardgrave Enterprises
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0692252479
• ISBN 13: 9780692252475
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272