River of Heaven

The mysterious 1955 death of teenager Dewey Finn on the railroad tracks outside Mt. Gilead, Illinois, has a profound impact on the people of the small town, including Dewey's boyhood friend Sam Brady, whose life had been irrevocably altered by the event, until his estranged brother Cal returns home after decades of self-exile and threatens to reveal the secret of that long-ago night. 80,000 first printing.