The Ploughmen

Two men on opposite sides of the law find a common bond in this novel steeped in a lonesome Montana landscape as unyielding and raw as it is beautiful.

At the center of this searing, fever dream of a novel are two men—a killer awaiting trial, and a troubled young deputy—sitting across from each other in the dark, talking through the bars of a county jail cell: John Gload, so brutally adept at his craft that only now, at the age of seventy-seven, has he faced the prospect of long-term incarce...