Skulls & Roses

<p>Born in turn-of-the-century Denver Colorado Jack Jones is a hard-traveling heavy-drinking crooked-gambling womanizer with an affinity for Rocky Mountain gin and the path of least resistance. In 1925 at the height of prohibition Jack hops off a boxcar in the bustling Oklahoma oil boomtown of Tulsa after five years out wandering along the road less traveled. In search of the nearest speakeasy and some low-stakes poker Jack stumbles across a far more lucrative opportunity when he meets bootlegging soda-jerk Joe McDunlop and his amiable Irish sidekick Shannon Todd. However when Jack falls for the young and pretty Bertha Steele the county sheriff's daughter and comes face-to-face with treachery his life of quick gains and repose quickly becomes upended sending him upon a long strange trip full of fifty years worth of fated misadventures in early 20th-century America. </p><p>Set in Hobohemia during the same era when Jack London Woody Guthrie and Jack Kerouac took to the road this classic retelling of a rake's progress provides a captivating window into a lost and forgotten time and the culture of those uncompromising devotees of freedom and wanderlust. Riddled with harrowing tales of swindles and jailbreaks windfalls and pitfalls <em>Skulls & Roses</em> examines the soul of a charismatic anti-hero while bringing to life the most-loved characters of the Grateful Dead's repertoire.</p><p> </p>