The kingdom: a novel

✍ Scribed by Recorded Books, Inc.;Ferguson, Robert;Nesbø, Jo

• Book ID: 100656615
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Alfred A. Knopf
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 309 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 0525655425

✦ Synopsis

" I read The Kingdom and couldn't put it down . . . Suspenseful . . . Original . . . This one is special in every way." --Stephen King
Roy and Carl have spent their whole lives running from the darkness in their past, but when Carl finally returns to make peace with it, the two brothers are inexorably drawn into a reckoning with their own demons.
Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in, unlike his little brother Carl who couldn't wait to get out and escape his troubled past. Just like everyone else in town, Roy believed Carl was gone for good. But Carl has big plans for his hometown. And when he returns with a mysterious new wife and a business opportunity that seems too good to be true, simmering tensions begin to surface and unexplained deaths in the town's past come under new scrutiny. Soon powerful players set their sights on taking the brothers down by exposing their role in the town's sordid history.
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✦ Subjects

Parents -- Fiction