Bad Land Vanessa de Haan Under pressure from above to

Under pressure from above to finish quickly so that urbane British millionaire Hugo Massiters property deal can be concluded

But when his case clashes head-on with the Johnny Bible killings

Finding themselves at the heart of a police investigation and media frenzy

As the nation's oldest serving detectives

And he meets his very own Book - a talking thing - who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter

Bad Land Vanessa de Haan Under pressure from above toSeduced by the government's offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of this century. Raban's stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate reality behind the homesteader's dream strips away the myth while preserving the romance that has shrouded our understanding of our own heartland.