It's rural Kentucky in the mid-eighties, a hard time in a hard place. Davy is fifteen years old. His father, a Vietnam vet, lost his job years ago and now puts food on the table hunting and fishing. Dad has what we might call anger issues. When his wife said something he didn't like he: "grabbed her by her hair, dragged her to the back door, and threw her into the yard. 'Come back in when you find a cure for stupid.'"
The fourth character in this situation is the family's landlord, Ben Daniels, the richest man in the county. Daniels wants to bring rich tourists to hunt on his land, which means he has to stop Davy's dad from hunting there for the pot. Oh, did I mention that Davy's mother is young and beautiful and when she is around the good-looking landlord has "busy eyes?"
So we have all the makings of a tragedy here. The only question is who is going to end up doing what to whom. And there Williams offers us some surprises, which is what I liked best about this well-written story.
"There are some things that need killing..."
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