Description

A trio of vicious World War One veterans descend on the farm in the Adirondack mountains where one of them grew up and his father now lives alone They embark on happily wreaking drunken havoc at the old mans place and in the nearby town But when a nave mailorder bride arrives she ignites a tinderbox of resentment lust and betrayal among the men that explodes in brutal depravity bloody violence and shocking death

This hardboiled literary masterpiece includes a new introduction by Jack Mearns author of John Sanford An Annotated Bibliography

Previously published as The Hard Guys and filmed as the 1971 motion picture My Old Mans Place