From the raw clay of historical fact, James Carlos Blake has sculpted a
powerful novel of both a man and an America at war with themselves. Here
is the brutally honest story of free-spirit William Anderson, who is
pulled into a savage conflict of state against state in the years
leading up to the Civil War. When Bill suffers a catastrophic loss, a
fury is unleashed in his anguished soul. He becomes the most fearsome
guerrilla captain and earns a name that becomes whispered with reverence
and terror: "Bloody Bill."