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Brutal. Nihilistic. Extreme. Clifford Jackman's debut, The Winter Family, lit my synapses up like a pinball machine. I joined golden-eyed Augustus Winter and his band of merry sociopaths on their journey through the dying West, civilization squeezing in from every angle-this is a raw, blood-splattered picaresque that I enjoyed immensely. Jackman throws nine kinds of hell at you in this book, unloading with both barrels, and never lets up the intensity. --Craig Davidson, author of Cataract City Clifford Jackman's novel somehow manages to be both traditional and eerily unique. Think of it as a combination of High Noon and The Shining. --Jeff Guinn, New York Times bestselling author of Glorious and The Last Gunfight Clifford Jackman uses the adventures of a gleefully nihilistic group of outlaws to tell the story of 'civilization's' implacable march westward. The members of the Winter Family are the advance guard-the thugs who more refined and powerful men send out to batter the world into submission. They burn Georgia for Sherman; they fix an election in Chicago for the young Republican Party; they clear Oklahoma of inconvenient natives for rapacious land barons. If Sam Peckinpah had been a novelist rather than a filmmaker, this is the book he would've written: brutal, at times darkly funny, and utterly gripping from the first page to the last. --Scott Smith, New York Times bestselling author of A Simple Plan and The Ruins

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CLIFFORD JACKMAN was born in Deep River and raised in Ottawa. He received a BA from York University, an MA from Queen's University and an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School. He practises law in Richmond Hill, Ontario, and counts Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy among his strongest literary influences.

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