Go south

It was a hellish summer and the air smelled of burning children.
With " one of the most gripping first sentences in contemporary literature" (according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Robert McCammon opens a visionary masterpiece about survival, salvation, and the astonishing transformations that love can bring.
Going South describes a desperate man' s journey through a desperate landscape, " in a gothic picaresque novel that combines gritty plotting and dark humor. " (The Wall Street Journal)
Dan Lambert, a man overwhelmed by memories and poisoned by Agent Orange, kills a man in a moment of fear and rage - and it changes his life forever. The police and manhunters begin to pursue him, and Dan flees south to the blind shoulders of Louisiana. In the swampy landscape, he meets Arden Halliday, a young woman burdened by an unmistakable burden from her past, who is searching for a legendary miracle healer called the Shining Girl.
Bound by a loyalty stronger than love, Dan and Arden embark on a journey of relentless tension and disturbing discoveries, and the world rarely shows them a kind face. They journey along dark and twisted paths to the mysterious depths of the human heart.