"Popular, good-looking and assured of a glittering professional football career, Neil lives in fear of his abusive father Chester, the charismatic local sheriff of a small town outside Las Vegas." "One night Neil makes a drunken mistake that proves to be fatal. There are no witnesses to the crime but when his father discovers the truth, Neil is dumbstruck by the turn of events and his life spirals out of control. As relations between father and son grow increasingly fraught, details about the disappearance of Neil's mother fourteen years before start to surface. Neil becomes obsessed with learning the truth about what happened from his father, an unwelcome and silent accomplice. When the FBI arrive in town and start delving deeper into the crime, the net gradually closes around the conspirators. With breathtaking suspense, father and son descend into a subterranean neon hell in the strip joints of Las Vegas, finally acting out the climax of their primal drama in the desert, where it all began."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
