The Ploughmen, Kim Zupan
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The Ploughmen

Author: Kim Zupan

Narrator: Jim Meskimen

Unabridged: 7 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/30/2014


Synopsis

A young sheriff and a hardened killer form an uneasy and complicated bond in this mesmerizing first novel set on the plains of Montana. Steeped in a lonesome Montana landscape as unyielding and raw as it is beautiful, Kim Zupans The Ploughmen is a new classic in the literature of the American West. At the center of this searing fever-dream of a novel are two mena killer awaiting trial and a troubled young deputysitting across from each other in the dark, talking through the bars of a county jail cell: John Gload, so brutally adept at his craft that only now, at the age of seventy-seven, has he faced the prospect of long-term incarceration; and Valentine Millimaki, low man in the Copper County sheriffs department, who draws the overnight shift after Gloads arrest. With a disintegrating marriage further collapsing under the strain of his night duty, Millimaki finds himself seeking counsel from a man whose troubled past shares something essential with his own. Their uneasy friendship takes a startling turn with a brazen act of violence that yokes together the two haunted souls by the secrets they shareand by the rugged country that keeps them.

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