description: A remarkable novel from the National Book Award-winning author of 'Going After Cacciato' and 'The Things They Carried', which combines the power of the finest Vietnam fiction with the tension of a many-layered mystery. In a remote lakeside cabin deep in the Minnesota forests, Kathy Wade is comforting her husband John, an ambitious politician, after a devastating electoral defeat. Then one night she vanishes, and gradually the search for Kathy becomes a voyage into the darkest corners of John Wade's life, a life of deception and deceit - the life of a man able to escape everything but the chains of his darkest secret.
language: English
title: In the Lake of the Woods
titlecomplete: In the Lake of the Woods
genres: Fiction, War, Mystery, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 21997
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: James Fenimore Cooper Prize
publisher: Penguin, 1995