num_pages: 328
description: Caught up in a moment of boyhood competition William Bellman recklessly aims his slingshot at a rook resting on a branch killing the bird instantly. It is a small but cruel act and is soon forgotten. By the time he is grown with a wife and children of his own William seems to have put the whole incident behind him. It was as if he never killed the thing at all. But rooks dont forgetYears later when a stranger mysteriously enters Williams life his fortunes begin to turnand the terrible and unforeseen consequences of his past indiscretion take root. In a desperate bid to save the only precious thing he has left he enters into a rather strange bargain with an even stranger partner. Together they found a decidedly macabre business.And Bellman &amp; Black is born.
language: English
title: Bellman & Black
publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books