The Sorrow Hand, Dwight Holing
The Sorrow Hand, Dwight Holing
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

The Sorrow Hand
A Nick Drake Novel

Author: Dwight Holing

Narrator: Steve Marvel

Unabridged: 7 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/26/2019


Synopsis

For Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake, the war at home proves just as deadly.

Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffle bag. He's been trained to kill, but never retrained to rejoin society. Drake flees to the lonesome high desert in search of redemption and takes a job patrolling wildlife refuges where the only conflicts are keeping out stray cows and ticketing poachers. But then he stumbles across a girl's body ritually placed in a gully. Her murder is only the beginning, and Drake must face humanity's heart of darkness once again if he's to stop a killer from turning even more gullies into graves.

About Dwight Holing

Dwight Holing lives and writes in California. His genre-spanning work includes novels, short fiction, and nonfiction. His mystery and suspense thriller series include the Nick Drake novels and the Jack McCoul Caper books. The stories in his collections of literary short fiction have won awards, including the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction. He has written and edited numerous nonfiction books on nature travel and conservation. He is married to a kick-ass environmental advocate; they have a daughter and son, and a dog who'd rather swim than walk.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Haris on July 28, 2018

Nick Drake is wonderfully complex character and I was invested in this story from the very first page. His backstory in Vietnam is beautifully (and horrifically) described. It was all very visceral and real, layered and emotional. I’m a huge fan of westerns and this felt very much like a contemporary......more

Goodreads review by Gino on July 29, 2018

The Sorrow Hand is a well-crafted story with believable three-dimensional characters, vivid, realistically drawn settings, plenty of red herrings and plot twists, and a troubled, deeply flawed, but sympathetic protagonist. The story is tightly woven, with very little wasted motion or breath. The aut......more

Goodreads review by Clare on April 06, 2020

Dwight Holing has created a great character in Nick Drake. Haunted by his past, conflicted about whether or not he'll succeed in his future, but committed to his fulfilling his duties as a Fish and Wildlife officer in the rugged country of Eastern Oregon, when he discovers the body of a brutally mur......more

Goodreads review by Susan on January 09, 2025

This was a good character-driven mystery. Nick Drake is a flawed protagonist struggling in 1968 after returning from Vietnam and he is one to root for. There were many elements I enjoyed and I will read more of this series.......more

Goodreads review by Sandy Thorn on March 02, 2022

Sorrow Hand The details in this book concerning the War in Vietnam and those who fought there were extremely painful to me as a citizen of the USA. I remember wearing a peace symbol. I did not blame the GIs when they came home. I did blame the politicians and t h e high command of the Armed Forces. I......more