“ EXILE ”

a novel by

SAMUEL KINSELLA

and though great beauty may mark the savagery of the nation, turning it a lighter shade than the blood it conveys, it still lingers and persists as a fountain of fire and brutality that shapes and erodes the earth beneath it, rotting and gnashing and tossing itself about with wild limbs until it capsizes into the sea.

SILAS CLARKE is a wanted man. after nearly dying in the texas revolution, he develops an unhealthy obsession with fire. in revenge against oilmen, the seeking of autonomy free of divine influence, evasion of the law, and a growing isolation, he seeks to blacken the lands of the developing american west. silas discovers that in trying to escape circumstance and the inevitable, the purveyors of false progress strangle all that do not serve them.

EXILE is a story of carnage, madness, civilization, the effects of war, death, the pursuit of individuality, and gray morality.