Bob Bowen Comes To Town

Bob Bowen has lived life on his own terms: carefree, reckless, answerable to no one but himself. He's the kind of young man who treats every day as a gamble, who finds thrill in the untethered freedom of having nothing and no one to answer for. Then everything changes on a train. A chance encounter with a hard-nosed mining stock investor throws Bob's world into unfamiliar territory. For the first time, someone else's interests hang in the balance, and Bob must decide whether he's capable of putting someone ahead of himself. What follows is a quiet but piercing story about what happens when a free spirit discovers that some stakes are higher than the ones he places on himself. Bedford-Jones writes with sharp economy about the moment a man-child learns that independence has a cost, and that true courage might mean caring about something beyond his own next thrill.