The Crossroads Anthony Powell Pierce Brown's dizzyingly good debut

Pierce Brown's dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games

The dead men were Latvian criminals

there is a reason

the small Russian town of Zavolzhsk is shaken out of its sleepy rural existence by the arrival from St Petersburg of a Synodical Inspector with a hidden agenda and a dangerously persuasive manner

the American wife who

The Crossroads Anthony Powell Pierce Brown's dizzyingly good debutMore than half a century ago, Papa Drovek opened his small grocery store at the junction of two country roads. As he bought more and more land, the roads became highways, and now the Droveks own a complex of hotels, restaurants, a truck stop, a shopping centre and two gas stations. Papa's eldest son, Charles, is president of the Crossroads Corporation. His son Leo enjoys his token job, and daughter Joan manages the commercial tenants' leases. But when