King of Dogs: Life is the training ground for death.

By Andrew Edwards

Book Overview

As a Soviet-style collapse unfolds in America, Grayson, equal parts philosopher and warrior but legitimately neither, makes a death-bed promise to watch over a couple with a child on the way. Driven by his own severe loss, he must make good on his promise, and carry the psychic consequences as he races headlong into the fallout of our imploding civilization. Set in the hallucinatory desert southwest, populated with hunter-killer teams, awash with refugees, third-country mercenaries, and hostile, conspiring elites, King of Dogs pits the beauty of language and western philosophical ideals against the deep depravity and violent decay of our times. Balancing elements of the apocalyptic, epic, western, and crime sub-genres with more ambitious, literary sentence-to-sentence writing and substructure, King of Dogs will appeal to readers who enjoy the aesthetics of Cormac McCarthy, as well as those who appreciate the challenge and reward found in writers as diverse as Joseph Conrad, Charles Bowden, and Paul Harding.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0578608081
• ISBN13: 9780578608082
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Golden Goat Guild
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Suspense, philosophy, non-stop violent action, beautiful writing.

I read this gripping book in a day, most of it in one sitting. I had a hard time putting it down, and I'm not even a big fan of action fiction. Set in a very near -and credible- future when USA has become a 'failed state' crawling with warring mercenary outfits, the protagonist, an expert in tracking, evasion, and combat, tries to fulfill a solemn promise, made to a dying friend, to help a family to safety, in an environment wracked with lawless violence. Written in beautiful prose (reminiscent to me of Cormac McCarthy) interspersed with the philosophical ruminations off the protagonist, high suspense and extreme violence, this should appeal to fans of "thinking man's" adventure/crime/war fiction. Not for the squeamish, though.