The Old Man's Place

A trio of vicious World War One veterans descend on the farm in the Adirondack mountains where one of them grew up and his father now lives alone. They embark on happily wreaking drunken havoc at the old man’s place and in the nearby town. But when a naive mail-order bride arrives she ignites a tinderbox of resentment lust and betrayal among the men that explodes in brutal depravity bloody violence and shocking death.This hard-boiled literary masterpiece back in print for the first time in sixty years includes a new introduction by Jack Mearns author of John Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography