The Bad Angel Brothers

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A deliciously dark, atmospheric novel about family and brotherhood from one of America' s most distinctive writers There' s sibling rivalry and then there' s the relationship of brothers Cal and Frank Belanger, which takes fraternal antipathy to a whole new level. Enemies seemingly since childhood, the small town of Littleford, where they are nicknamed ' The Bad Angle Brothers' , just isn' t big enough to hold them both. So Cal strikes out for the world' s wild places -- a gifted geologist in search of gold and other precious minerals, leaving Cal to develop a successful career as the town' s lawyer, fixer and local hero. Apart, their differences are muted by distance, but when Cal, newly rich and newly wed, returns to the town of his birth, to buy a house and raise a family, Frank gives him the opposite of a brotherly welcome. From undermining Cal' s marriage, while Cal is away on business, to torpedoing his finances, nothing is off the table, setting the scene for a tale of gleefully vicious betrayals and reprisals, culminating in the ultimate plan: murder. Few authors have as keen an eye for human nature as the inimitable Paul Theroux, and this riveting tale of adventure, betrayal, and the true cost of family bonds is a remarkable new work from one of America' s most distinctive writers.