Yonder Stands Your Orphan

"A wildly colorful, darkly comic, and ultimately sinister tale of madness and murder" from the award-winning master of Southern fiction (Library Journal).

"Set in a lake community in the vicinity of Vicksburg, Miss., the story revolves around a fellow named Man Mortimer, a thief, pimp and murderer—and those are his good qualities—who physically resembles the late country singer Conway Twitty. On his trail are Byron Egan, a somewhat reformed biker-turned-preacher and prophet, and Max Raymond...