Boy's Life
Robert R. McCammon
Open Road Media
<B>An Alabama boy's innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the <I>New York Times</I>&#8211;bestselling author of <I>Swan Song</I>.</B><BR /> It's 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It's a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelve-year-old aspiring writer Cory Mackenson. He's certain he's sensed spirits whispering in the churchyard. He's heard of the weird bootleggers who lurk in the dark outside of town. He's seen a flood leave Main Street crawling with snakes. Cory thrills to all of it as only a young boy can.<BR /> <BR /> Then one morning, while accompanying his father on his milk route, he sees a car careen off the road and slowly sink into fathomless Saxon's Lake. His father dives into the icy water to rescue the driver, and finds a beaten corpse, naked and handcuffed to the steering wheel&#8212;a copper wire tightened around the...