Candlemoth - Softcover

Ellory, Roger Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1407216805 ISBN 13: 9781407216805

Publisher: Columbia Marketing Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

Daniel Ford has thirty-six days to live. Accused of the horrific murder of his best friend Nathan twelve years before, he has exhausted all appeals and now faces the long walk to the electric chair. All he can do is make peace with his God. Father John Rousseau is the man to whom the last month of Daniel's life has been entrusted. All the two men have left to do is rake over the last ashes of Ford's existence. So he begins to tell his story. Daniel's story takes him from his first meeting with Nathan, aged six, on the shores of a lake in 1952, through first loves, Vietnam, the death of Kennedy and finally their flight from the draft which ends in Nathan's brutal murder. But meanwhile the clock is ticking and the days are running out . . .

About this title

From the Publisher

Accused and convicted of the murder of his closest friend, Nathan Verney, Daniel Ford has exhausted all appeals and, at last, faces the electric chair. It’s 1982, and Daniel is thirty–six years old. One person will walk that final month with him. Father John Rousseau has been entrusted by the U.S. government with Ford’s soul, and together they will rake over the ashes of his past. But this is no simple story. It is one that not only encompasses the loves, betrayals, and friendships of one man, but also the tumultuous events of a whole society on the verge of war with itself. It was the America that saw the Vietnam War and Watergate, the deaths of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King. It also saw the brutal murder of Nathan Verney and the guilt of the one man who loved him...

About the Author

Roger Jon Ellory has been writing for over ten years but CANDLEMOTH is his first published novel. He has had a variety of jobs - he now works to detox drug addicts - but writing is still his first love. Roger lives in the Midlands and is in his late thirties.

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia Marketing Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1407216805
• ISBN 13: 9781407216805
• Binding: Paperback