The Drift

Tormented by his past, drugs, and an advancing dementia, Charlie ekes out a perilous existence on the railroads, until he is asked to find the missing teenage niece of the man who had taught him how to survive the rails, and follows a twisting trail of lies, deceit, hate, hopelessness, and murder that takes him to a dramatic confrontaion with his own humanity. 35,000 first printing.