Two families. Two brothers. One explosive secret.
John Hart has written four New York Times bestsellers and won an
unprecedented two back-to-back Edgar Awards. The New York Times
labeled his work Grisham-style intrigue and Turow-style brooding. Now he
delivers a gut-wrenching, heart-stopping thriller no reader will soon
forget.
There was nothing but time at the Iron Mountain Home for Boys, time for
two orphans to learn that life is neither painless nor won without a
fight. Julian survives only because his older brother, Michael, is both
feared and fiercely protective. When an older boy is brutally killed,
Michael makes the ultimate sacrifice to protect his brother: He flees
the orphanage and takes the blame with him.
For two decades, Michael thrives on the streets of New York, eventually
clawing his way to a world of wealth, fear and respect. But the life
he's fought to build unravels when he meets a woman who knows nothing of
his past or sins. He wants a fresh start with Elena, the chance to build
a family of his own. But a life in organized crime is not so easily
abandoned. With a price on his head and everyone he loves at risk,
Michael spirits Elena back to North Carolina, to the brother he'd lost
and a thicket of intrigue more dense than he could possibly imagine. In
a tour de force narrative of violence, hope and redemption, the brothers
must return to the Iron House of their childhood, to the place that
almost broke them, the place it all began.
Praise for John Hart
Lean, hard and absolutely riveting, Iron House is a tour de force. --
#1 New York Times Bestselling Author Vince Flynn
Vividly beautiful, graphic, will make you bleed.-- #1 New York Times
Bestselling Author Patricia Cornwell
A magnificent creation, Huck Finn channeled through Lord of the Flies.
-Washington Post on The Last Child
Gripping. A must-read. --Chicago Sun-Times on Down River
The King of Lies moves and reads like a book on fire. -- Pat Conroy
