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Learn moreThe steady tick of an aged Regulator wall clock and the squeak of an overhead fan turning slowly are soft but insistent, counting down the night, while the high desert thrums like a half-remembered Victrola song. The sounds are below the consciousness of Winchell Dear, an old-time gambler, a Texas poker player on the southern circuit, as he waits for something . . . something vague that his life of chance tells him is evil and moving his way.
In Diablo Canyon, a distant part of Winchell Dearās ranch, Peter Long Grass squats by a campfire, contemplating the profile he saw moving along the ridge of Guapa Mountain an hour ago, thinking about the gamblerās housekeeper, Sonia Dominguez, about the small, quiet world he has fashioned far from civilization and what undefined presence might now be threatening it. He gathers his tools and begins to run across the desert floor.
And boring toward all of them is a cream-colored Lincoln Continental with two men aboard. Traveling from Los Angeles on a mission theyāve been given, they are professionals, cool and implacable at the start, but becoming steadily more confused by the strange landscape they are passing through. Forty minutes from their task, they ready themselves, while a kitchen wall clock ticks its way through the long night of Winchell Dear.
The Long Night of Winchell Dear finds master storyteller Robert James Waller at his best as he takes us into the shadowy world of high-stakes poker fought in the back rooms of Amarillo and Little Rock, and headlong toward the storyās stunning finale of chaotic terror, where an unexpected hero emerges.
Robert James Waller is the author of the #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestsellersĀ The Bridges of Madison CountyĀ andĀ Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend. His other works include theĀ New York TimesĀ bestsellersĀ Old Songs in a New CafĆ©: Selected Essays,Ā Border Music, andĀ Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, and his book of photographs,Ā Images.
Richard McGonagleĀ is an experienced film, television, and voiceover actor. Heās recorded numerous audiobooks, including theĀ New York TimesĀ Ten Best BookĀ The Dark SideĀ by Jane Mayer,Ā Rocket MenĀ by Craig Nelson, andĀ American LionĀ by Jon Meacham.
Robert James Waller is the author of the #1Ā New York TimesĀ bestsellersĀ The Bridges of Madison CountyĀ andĀ Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend. His other works include theĀ New York TimesĀ bestsellersĀ Old Songs in a New CafĆ©: Selected Essays,Ā Border Music, andĀ Puerto Vallarta Squeeze, and his book of photographs,Ā Images.
Richard McGonagleĀ is an experienced film, television, and voiceover actor. Heās recorded numerous audiobooks, including theĀ New York TimesĀ Ten Best BookĀ The Dark SideĀ by Jane Mayer,Ā Rocket MenĀ by Craig Nelson, andĀ American LionĀ by Jon Meacham.