The Evening Road Benjamin Percy charismatic bandit and the vengeance-sworn

charismatic bandit and the vengeance-sworn son of a deposed duke cross paths as they each lead their own rebellion against the emperor's brutal regime

But the battered Asian girl she turns out to be Vietnamese he finds in the doorway of his basement flat drags him straight back to the old world

But there is no turning back for Severus

for what crimes could possibly happen in such an out-of-the-way place

The Evening Road Benjamin Percy charismatic bandit and the vengeance-sworn'A strange, dazzling novel, as audacious as it is lyrical, that hauls up insight, sorrow, and even somehow wit from the well of American history.' EMMA DONOGHUE 'A vivid, disturbing book, able to subvert itself in half a line, constantly challenging the reader's expectations. Its ghost map is quickly established in the reader's head, and as the characters fade into the margin of the final page, it is as if an inner landscape has altered. It is mature,