Crows and Silences

The late Lucius Shepard was one of his era's best and most quintessentially American writers. His dark yet grudgingly hopeful worldview gave birth to a treasure trove of fiction that could have been written by nobody else.

Crows and Silences collects four select short novels, each totally unlike the others.

In Kalimantan, jewel merchant Barnett follows the trail of the expat American fool Curtis MacKinnon deep into the jungles of Borneo, only to discover that the ancient gods of the Dayak hav...