Trouble No Man : A Novel

American War meets Into the Wild inBrian Harts epic saga of one mans struggle to survive a hostile worldtracing his path from a self-destructive, skateboarding youth in the 90s to the near futureas he journeys across a desolate, militia-controlled American West to find his missingfamilyperfect for fans of Edan Lepuki and Cormac McCarthy.In the America of a near future, northern California and the Pacific Northwesthave become a desolate wasteland controlled by violent separatist militias and marked by a lack of water and fuel. In a village outside Reno, a middle-aged man visits an undertaker and gathers the ashes of his dead wife to bring to Alaska.There, their children await themrefugees from the destruction of the south. To reach his only remaining family, the man must cross the treacherous, violent landscape north by bike, his dog his only companion. Thirty years earlier, we meet Roy Bingham. After a rough-and-tumble childhood, Roy is numbing himself with skateboarding, drugs, and sex, when he meets Karen. Sassy, soulful, and arresting, Karen pulls Roy into her orbit until she decides to give up their nomadic lifestyle to put down roots in her hometown of Loyalton, California. Roys fidelity buckles under the commitment and after a boozy night in Reno he leaves Karen for the road and skateboarding.Flashing back and forth in time across four decades in the life of a man who is lost even when hes found, Trouble No Man delivers a resonant story of survival, violence, and family, set against the tumult of an America on the precipice of becoming an unfree nation.