The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and the Ones You Do

By Daniel Woodrell and Stephan Pastis

Book Overview

In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life--and Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth in this hard-hitting, critically acclaimed trilogy of crime novels.

As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, Woodrell's three seminal novels pit long-entrenched criminals against the hard line of the law, brother against brother, and two vastly different sons against a long-absent father.

The Bayou Trilogy highlights the origins of a one-of-a-kind author, a writer who for over two decades created an indelible representation of the shadows of the rural American experience and steadily built a devoted following among crime fiction aficionados and esteemed literary critics alike.

"What people say about Cormac McCarthy ... goes double for Woodrell]. Possibly more." --New York magazine

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316133655
• ISBN13: 9780316133654
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Mulholland Books
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.1"