Fourth of July Creek
Subtitle: a novel
By: Smith Henderson
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: ECCO, An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780062286444
Subjects: United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; United States; Wilderness survival; Fiction; Survivalism; Social workers
Other titles: 4th of July Creek
Description: "After trying to help Benjamin Pearl, an undernourished, nearly feral eleven-year-old boy living in the Montana wilderness, social worker Pete Snow comes face-to-face with the boy's profoundly disturbed father, Jeremiah. With courage and caution, Pete slowly earns a measure of trust from this paranoid survivalist itching for a final conflict that will signal the coming End Times. But as Pete's own family spins out of control, Pearl's activities spark the full-blown interest of the FBI, putting Pete at the center of a massive manhunt from which no one will emerge unscathed. In this shattering and iconic American novel, Smith Henderson explores the complexities of freedom, community, grace, suspicion, and anarchy, brilliantly depicting our nation's disquieting and violent contradictions" --