About This Book
"You're dying of old age at forty-six," the specialist told Johann Prus. "You need a miracle." For the seventh richest man in the world, wealth comes with the conviction you can buy miracles. When Prus hears about Banner County, Oregon and its mysterious Cloud where other hopeless cases have found miracles, he wants it at any price. In Banner County the trees grow taller, the marijuana grows stronger, there's gold in the creeks, and there's even a century-old feud. Its violent history is built on gold, grass, guns and greed, and most of Banner's mystery is shrouded beneath the unchanging Cloud, a twenty square mile phenomenon that affects everything it touches. Dewey Farrell got kicked out of Banner County when he was eighteen by his girlfriend, Pearl Banner, whose family owns the whole county. Twenty-three years later, he's a widower and an unemployable cop and he's going back to Banner for the first time. He knows it won't be easy because Pearl's running the show. Shot at and lied to on arrival, it doesn't take Farrell long to discover he's been manipulated by unseen hands since the day he was born, and he's still being led. Between Prus and living stands the re-born man of action, Dewey Farrell, whose own answers to a misspent life lie under the Cloud. Prus sends in his well-armed mercenaries, but Dewey has Banner and all its mysteries on his side. Banner County and its Cloud make The Weight of the Journey a one-of-a-kind thriller. The novel is an exciting new addition to series set in the Pacific Northwest, already home to the imagination-stretching Twilight and Grimm.
