The King Is Dead

✍ Scribed by Jim Lewis

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Vintage Books
• Year: 2007;2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 182 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0307428818

✦ Synopsis

Returning a hero from the battlefields of World War II, Walter Selby settles into a charmed domestic life in Memphis. But in a few brief moments, Walter sees his life and his world fracture and split apart, driving him to commit a terrible crime.

Many years later, Frank Cartwright ponders his next move. His film career has left him wealthy but incomplete. When a director approaches him with a script that has a riddle for a plot Frank is intrigued by its resonance. In his search for an answer to the riddle, Frank embarks on a journey that will lead him into a past he doesn't remember.

Jim Lewis, acclaimed author of Why the Tree Loves the Ax , returns with a novel stunning in its originality and scope. And as he tells the stories of two men and the conflicts that shape them, he delivers a powerful portrait of America and the treacherous currents that run through it.

From the Trade Paperback edition.