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The Blue Cheer

Set in the remote mountains of West Virginia, this grittyÿcontemporary detective novel, Lynskey's second to feature former PI FrankJohnson (after 2006's The Dirt-Brown Derby), will remind many of suchmasters of hard-boiled prose as Loren Estleman. Johnson has sought to stillthe memories of a deadly encounter with the Ku Klux Klan by retreating tothe Appalachian town of Scarab, where people?and friends?arefew and far between. Johnson witnesses what appears to be a Stinger missilestrike against an unmanned aerial drone hovering above his yard, and hecalls on his closest local companion, Old Man Maddox, a retired CIA agent.

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West Virginia (543)

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United States (64,950)

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Allegheny Plateau (173)
Appalachian Mountains (1,111)