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That Bright Land
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 06-24-16
- Language: English
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Regular price: $24.47
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Publisher's Summary
That Bright Land is a new Southern Gothic thriller from Terry Roberts, winner of the 2012 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction.
In the summer of 1866, Jacob Ballard, a former Union soldier and spy, is dispatched by the War Department in Washington City to infiltrate the isolated North Carolina mountain community where he was born and find a serial killer responsible for the deaths of Union veterans.
Based on true events, That Bright Land is the story of a violent and fragile nation in the wake of the Civil War and a man who must exorcise his own savage demons while tracking down another.
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