Bad Land Vanessa de Haan Keon Rause returns to the

Keon Rause returns to the distant colony world of Magenta to resume service with the Magentan Intelligence Service

As the nation's oldest serving detectives

meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother's funeral

But when his case clashes head-on with the Johnny Bible killings

Bad Land Vanessa de Haan Keon Rause returns to theSeduced by the government's offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of this century. Raban's stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate reality behind the homesteader's dream strips away the myth while preserving the romance that has shrouded our understanding of our own heartland.