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Rovers

Audiobook
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2 of 2 copies available

Two immortal brothers crisscross the American Southwest to elude a murderous biker gang and protect a young woman in this "utter triumph and delight" from award-winning author Richard Lange (Jonathan Ames, author of A Man Named Doll).

Summer, 1976. Jesse and his brother, Edgar, are on the road in search of victims. They're rovers, nearly indestructible nocturnal beings who must consume human blood in order to survive. For seventy years they've lurked on the fringes of society, roaming from town to town, dingy motel to dingy motel, stalking the transients, addicts, and prostitutes they feed on.
This hard-boiled supernatural hell ride kicks off when the brothers encounter a young woman who disrupts their grim routine, forcing Jesse to confront his past and plunging his present into deadly chaos as he finds himself scrambling to save her life. The story plays out through the eyes of the brothers, a grieving father searching for his son's murderer, and a violent gang of rover bikers, coming to a shattering conclusion in Las Vegas on the eve of America's Bicentennial.
Gripping, relentless, and ferocious, Rovers demonstrates once again why Richard Lange has been hailed as an "expert writer, his prose exact, his narrative tightly controlled" (Steph Cha, Los Angeles Times).

Finalist for the 2022 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from May 10, 2021
      Set during the summer of 1976, this outstanding supernatural noir from Hammett Prize winner Lange (Angel Baby) follows brothers Jesse and Edgar, both vampire-like creatures known as rovers, as they travel across the southwest, targeting transients, prostitutes, and addicts. The brothers do their best to keep their nocturnal feeding under the radar, but things get complicated when Jesse falls for a bartender who resembles a doomed love who died 70 years earlier. Meanwhile, an undead biker gang blazes its own trail of carnage. The father of one of the gang’s victims devotes himself to investigating his son’s murder and eventually falls in with a man whose mission is to hunt and exterminate rovers. The paths of these conflicting groups converge near Las Vegas, Nev., where a 2,000-year-old rover lives in a bunker-like fortress. Evocative prose illuminates the neon-lit world of small-town 1970s America. Lange succeeds brilliantly at combining the vampire and noir traditions. Agent: Henry Dunow, Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary.

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