False River

False River
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False River is the story of a black sheep son of an aristocratic Southern family gone to seed. Growing up, Cam Daltry made a name for himself in his hometown by stirring up trouble. But the smirks he'd always been given for his boyhood sins turn to genuine shame when he goes AWOL from the Marines, gets thrown in the brig, and then gets shipped back home to Louisiana with a dishonorable discharge. So he enrolls in college, lands a blueblood girlfriend, and sets out to give the good old Southern straight and narrow an honest try. It isn't long before he finds trouble again, and this time it's worse than ever. The law comes after him, his parents write him off, and he sets out on a desperate odyssey to get help from his estranged older brother Andrew––an ambitious law student at Tulane. But after being drawn into the seedy underbelly of the French Quarter, Cam falls in with a wild slew of characters in a downward spiral that shows him the dark truth of himself and pushes him ever closer towards a final and irreversible attempt at redemption. He goes to daring but ever more pitiful extremes to escape his troubles, but they quickly reach such shocking depths that even Andrew is swallowed up by them. It's only in the painful wake of accidental tragedy that Cam sees how to follow his older brother's lead, and becomes determined to make a man out of himself with what will be the truest but also the hardest acts of his life.

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Stinson Carter. False River

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten. Cam’s knuckles crack loudly against the old shutters, and a dog barks and paws at the inside of the door

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

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They had to stand in line for hours on a parade ground in the rain, wearing just their skivvy shirts and trousers. There were only a dozen dress jackets and caps for a thousand worn out boys, neither the few nor the proud. They’d each slip into a jacket warmed by the grunts before them, then quickly hand it off after steeling their faces for a ration of Kodachrome. They don’t tell you to smile and they don’t offer retakes for blinked eyes. Cam reckoned that’s why so many dead kids have lousy pictures on the evening news.

Cam had lined up a short-term bed through a guy in his platoon whose mother wanted him out of the Marines. The night before Okinawa he got USMC tattooed on his arm and Cam got an address scribbled on his palm.

.....

“You’re from South Highlands, too, man.”

“His momma sure picked a good doorstep to leave him on,” says Mary Beth.

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