Coffin Moon
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Portland, Oregon, winter of 1975. Duane Minor has come home from Vietnam and is trying to hold his life together. He tends bar, fights to stay sober, hopes to save his marriage to Heidi, and is learning how to raise his thirteen-year-old niece, Julia, who is now his responsibility. Money and patience are thin, but he is managing. Then a stranger walks into the bar, and he is not human. John Varley sleeps through the day under loose mounds of earth, and his teeth grow in the light of the moon. When Minor crosses him, Varley answers with savage cruelty and murders Heidi. Minor is left crushed by guilt, and Julia is consumed by rage. The only thing still binding what remains of their family is a shared need for revenge. The pair set off after Varley in a frantic chase that carries them across the Pacific Northwest and farther. They pass through filthy alleys, empty highways and snowbound plains, and they fall in with undead children, makers of silver bullets, and a crowd of damaged men who are drawn to Varley's savagery. Hunter and hunted keep trading places, and everyone involved wants blood. Keith Rosson, who also wrote Fever House and The Devil by Name, tells this story in a hard, bleak and emotionally brutal register. It asks what is left of a person when grief turns into violence, when monsters look like ordinary people, and when the hunger for vengeance pushes out everything else.
ISBN: 9780593733424
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