King Blood
By: Jim Thompson.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Series: Armchair Detective Library
Publisher: Otto Penzler Books
Published: January 1994
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781562870454
Subjects: Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Oklahoma -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
First sentence: Just before first-light, just before dawn began its streaky buttering of the Territorial Oklahoma prairie, Critch stepped out to the open vestibule of the train and stood waiting there for the soldier's bride.
Description: Ike King, a man who built his empire with blood and violence, faces a career change when his sons threaten to take that empire away from him.