Bayard Louis - The Pale Blue Eye A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Now a Netflix film starring Christian Bale Harry Melling and Gillian Anderson Shockingly clever and devoutly unsentimental reads like a lost classic. Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction. New York Times Book Review An ingenious tale of murder and revenge at West Point featuring a retired detective and a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe from the author of Courting Mr. Lincoln. At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope. The next morning an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has removed the dead man's heart. Augustus Landor who acquired some renown in his years as a New York City police detective is called in to discreetly investigate. It's a baffling case Landor must pursue in secret for the scandal could do irreparable damage to the fledgling institution. But he finds help from an unexpected ally a moody young cadet with a penchant for drink two volumes of poetry to his name and a murky past that changes from telling to telling. The strange and haunted Southern poet for whom Landor develops a fatherly affection is named Edgar Allan Poe.
Title: The Pale Blue Eye A Novel
Author(s): Bayard Louis
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780060733988
Pages: 448 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/12/2007