Deepwater: A Novel

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"Matthew F. Joness Deepwater is one of the best novels to cross my desk this year. Full of darkness and rage and nightmares its premise evokes James M. Cains The Postman Always Rings Twice. Brilliantly written sweatily erotic and unbearably suspenseful Deepwater should go directly to the top of your reading list." - Les Roberts The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Jones and Daniel Woodrell are the leading contemporary authors of country noir a subgenre whose roots trace back to James M. Cains Post Man Always Rings Twice. Jones builds tension from two seemingly contradictory sources: the noirists stock-in-trade the disaster waiting to happen and the crackling unpredictability that comes from the expert melding of genres: noir thriller crossed with psychological horror." - Bill Ott Booklist Starred Review Jones turns boondocks noir into hallucinogenic horror as...the postman rings again in a malignant pastoral of steamy sex Oedipal terror and a few too many Faulknerian fever dreams." - Kirkus Reviews "Jones creates tension with remarkable economy and intricacy in a sinister narrative that ultimately reveals itself as a powerful expression of loneliness dangerous passions and the quest for identity." - Publishers Weekly "Deepwater is a harrowing and unsettling piece of fiction....inescapably chilling it is the dark shadowy figure that lives on the other side of magical realism." - Mike Shea Austin Chronicle Now a major motion picture starring Lucas Black and Peter Coyote A sexy psychological thriller about a young man with a mysterious past. Nat Banyon young handsome and rough around the edges accidentally stumbles into the shady town of Deepwater. He takes on a painting job at a dingy hotel and soon afterwards seduces his employers beautiful wife. But it isnt long before dangerous things begin to happen around town and Nat isnt sure whos responsible: the desperate wife her suspicious husband or Nat himself. Deepwater has all you want from a thriller: sex murder fast cars and a big scary dog. In his most compelling novel yet Jones pulls us along a straight edge of terror with two fascinatingly complex characters - Herman Finch and Nat Banyon will continue to terrify and intrigue long after the storys end.