From the acclaimed author of The Orphan from Shepherds Keep comes a new exploration of love's most enduring forms.
Brighton and Baéz are half-brothers forever bound by a single impossible moment: one plunges through the frozen surface of Lake Aspetuck, and the other risks everything to pull him back to the light. That miraculous rescue echoes across thirty years as the two men take vastly different paths through love, war, fame, and spiritual awakening.
Brighton Bethune becomes a global figure: tennis champion, Army Ranger, celebrated film actor, a man who conquers the world's stages while struggling to survive its cost. Baéz Honor, shaped by the spiritual wisdom of their prophetic grandmother Nonnie, follows a quieter path, tending to a mysterious gift of healing first awakened beneath that frozen lake. Together, they face sports corruption, the seductions of fame, the wounds of war, and the slow unraveling of a world they were raised to trust.
What holds them together is not obligation, but something fiercer: the same stubborn, imperfect devotion that readers fell in love with in The Orphan from Shepherds Keep. Lindsay once again finds the sacred in the bonds between men and proves that love, whether romantic or brotherly, is the one thing worth surviving for.
Without Him is sweeping and intimate, epic and deeply personal. It is a novel about what men owe each other, and what they cannot live without.
Lindsay Law has produced scores of television plays and dozens of films, in addition to a pair of productions on Broadway. Many of these works have been nominated for Emmys, Tonys, and Oscars. He was the Executive Producer for the PBS drama series, AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE, from 1981 to 1995. He was the President of Fox Searchlight Pictures from 1995 to 2000. He lives in Litchfield County, Connecticut. You can read more about him on his website-lindsaylaw.net. If you enjoyed this book and the time you spent with these characters, help spread the word on-line, at your local bookshop, and directly with your friends. The author would enjoy hearing about your experience while reading this book and invites you to ask any questions you may have about this story and his story.
