BooksDirect

Description - The Prince Of The World by Christopher R Howard

In these six stories, Chris Howard reasserts his talent for evoking the gritty and the apocalyptic with poeticgrace.

Intelligent People Speaking Reasonablyfollows two Iraq vets adrift in the civilian life of the Pacific Northwest.

Space is Kindnesswitnesses the unexpected death of Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan from the perspectiveof a local reporter and a photographer rushing to the crash-site in 2000.

Darkstartakes place in Dublin and follows a young outcast named Sailor through grimy, pre Apocalypticstreets as he tries to find the soulmate he hasn't seen since childhood.

Son of Mantells the story of the Manson family from the perspective of one of its members.

How to Make Millions in the Oil Marketcontemplates the absurdity of war from the point of view of aBlackwater contractor first in the chaos of Iraq and later in the relative peace of the US.

The epictitle storyPrince of the Worldfollows a mixed-race orphan named Labelle as he wanders north alongthe Mississippi, ultimately caught in the infamous Starved Rock Massacre in Howard's home-state of Illinois.

Buy The Prince Of The World by Christopher R Howard from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.

A Preview for this title is currently not available.