A deliciously dark atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America's most
distinctive writers There's sibling rivalry and then there's the relationship of brothers Cal
and Frank Belanger which takes fraternal antipathy to a whole new level. Enemies seemingly
since childhood the small town of Littleford where they are nicknamed 'The Bad Angle
Brothers' just isn't big enough to hold them both. So Cal strikes out for the world's wild
places -- a gifted geologist in search of gold and other precious minerals leaving Frank to
develop a successful career as the town's lawyer fixer and local hero. Apart their
differences are muted by distance but when Cal newly rich and newly wed returns to the town
of his birth to buy a house and raise a family Frank gives him the opposite of a brotherly
welcome. From undermining Cal's marriage while Cal is away on business to torpedoing his
finances nothing is off the table setting the scene for a tale of gleefully vicious betrayals
and reprisals culminating in the ultimate plan: murder. Few authors have as keen an eye for
human nature as the inimitable Paul Theroux and this riveting tale of adventure betrayal and
the true cost of family bonds is a remarkable new work from one of America's most distinctive
writers.
