Dead Man Falling

by Randall Silvis

Helping a young woman find her brother's killer is the biggest risk wildlife filmmaker Mac Parris has ever taken, since he has spent most of his adult life hiding from the FBI and his own past in pursuit of revenge.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078670313X
• ISBN13: 9780786703135
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Very highly recommended

A leg bone and the upper portion of an arm have been found in separate locations in north central Pennsylvania. As Diana reads the newspaper account, her blood freezes. She intuits that the victim is her younger brother. Tony was only fourteen, but had been on his own since she left her abusive home the day after her eighteenth birthday. Diana couldn't blame him for leaving too, and she refused to damn him for the harsh choices he made to stay alive on the streets. The police can't help since Diana can't even prove her brother missing. So she approaches filmmaker Mac Parris to help her. He's said to have an eye for detail, doesn't mind late hours, has the right equipment, and is within her price range.Mac has his own demons to fight. Thirty years ago his life dramatically changed with the tragic loss of his wife and child. Now his nights are haunted by fire and only the deep woods, far from civilization, brings relief. Now he films the lives of wolverines and other scavengers, living his life on the path of most resistance. Perhaps he prefers having the odds stacked against him. And perhaps he feels more of a kinship for the wolverine than most of the members of his own species. Surprising himself, when Diana shows up at his doorstep requesting his help, he finds it "physically impossible at a time like that to say no to a girl with snowlights in her hair."The more time Mac spends with the strong, yet strangely vulnerable Diana, the more he comes to realize that the vacuum he's defined as his life is sterile and useless. Her presence gives him a purpose beyond the vision of revenge he's held for thirty years. They come to know one another not by what each reveals but by that which they work to keep hidden. As their joint quest for answers leads them deep into a world of perversion, violence and decadence, the answers also lead these sharply compelling characters to a transformation of vision and self. DEAD MAN FALLING is one of those strangely compelling novels that fits into the genre of murder, of mystery, of crime thriller, and yet it is so much more. DEAD MAN FALLING echoes the grace and profundity of much classic literature such as Hemingway's THE SUN ALSO RISES. Further, Randall Silvis' voice moves with a subtle depth and compassion that entrances the reader, drawing one deep within this absorbing narrative. Very highly recommended.