Die Famous
A family in peril takes to the road in this thrilling and emotional American epic
“I loved the man and I wanted to kill him.
What’s so hard to understand about that?”
America, 1937: Outlaws on the run, FBI agents, and one angry woman in pursuit.
On the day she spots her first gray hair, Savannah Cody announces her desire to find and kill Edward “Nickel” Terhune. Once the love of her life – and the father of her only child – he is now the getaway driver for the notorious Brady Gang, with an enticing bounty set on his head. Savannah has many reasons to pursue him, although the stated goals shift depending on her audience.
With her son, Alford, and her father, Wendell, a retired railroad detective who is alternately her fiercest defender and critic, Savannah journeys across an America marked by the Great Depression, from rural farms to posh resorts and north to Maine as summer edges toward fall.
Out in front, Nickel is a man on the run from the law and his haunted past. As the Brady Gang races for fame and fortune and against an undeniable ticking clock, Nickel desperately seeks a path that will hide his sins and save a future.
The maps don’t show him one quite like that.
For Alford, the journey is a discovery of all the forces that shape his own identity – at times exhilarating, at times painful, but at last, finally, the truth.
Die Famous is a sweeping testament to American dreams and heartbreaks, and a novel that showcases why William Kent Krueger has said “Michael Koryta is simply one of today’s finest authors, period.”
