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Boot Tracks is a commanding tale of a man and a woman struggling against a destiny they cannot control, told in Matthew F. Jones’ characteristically taut, economic style. An assassination gone terribly wrong; a couple searching for one last chance to find a safe place in a hostile world.
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A sexy, riveting psychological thriller about a young man with an unknowable past who lands in a small town, seduces a man's wife and steals his beloved dog. Matt Jones has created a cast of wonderfully complex characters and enough twists and turns to keep you flipping the pages until the very last one.
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A vanished child, an unstable nanny, and a mysterious couple in a black sedan--these are the key elements of Matthew F. Jones's fourth novel, Blind Pursuit. The story begins near Albany, New York, when Caroline and Edmund Follett's 8-year-old daughter disappears on her way to the school bus. The only witness to the abduction is a 12-year-old boy who saw the child getting into a black sedan.
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After the loss of his family farm, John Moon is a desperate man. A master hunter, his ability to poach game in-season or out is the only thing that stands between him and the soup kitchen line. Until Moon trespasses on the wrong land, hears a rustle in the brush, and fires a single fateful shot.
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Walter Innis, son of a frustrated and violent fallen baseball star and a tragically unhappy woman driven to infidelity, carries his family's legacy of torment into his own adult life - with disastrous results. Ultimately, it is as a Little League coach that Walter discovers a route to happiness and hope beyond the reach of the past.
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Jones's blackly humorous first novel, set on the Cooter family's failing dairy farm in New York State, is firmly grounded in the gothic tradition.
The Cooter Farm is a powerful drama of family dysfunction and child abuse, told from the perspective of Ollie, who asks nothing more than a normal family life. Ollie's story is at once a poignant coming-of-age tale liberally laced with gothic overtones and a serious consideration of social issues with a hint of absurdity.
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Matthew F. Jones is the author of the critically acclaimed novels The Cooter Farm, The Elements of Hitting, A Single Shot, Blind Pursuit, Deepwater, and Boot Tracks, as well as a number of screenplays, including adaptations of Boot Tracks and A Single Shot, both currently in production. His novel, Deepwater, was made into a film in 2005. He was born in Boston and grew up in rural upstate New York. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife, Karen and son, Reuben.
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