Table of Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• PART ONE
• The Noonday Owl
• “The Sweet Smell of Newsprint”
• Death or High Water
• Decent, Sane, and Simple
• The Rest Is Blank
• The Reasons of the Heart
• Code 3
• PART TWO
• When Both Answers Are Wrong
• In These Days of Carnage
• Kill Your Blues
• Going to War
• By the Grace of God and Valhalla
• No Inkling of Cat and Mouse
• Like the Brush of a Wing
• “This Is What We Do”
• Patient in Affliction
• PART THREE
• The Armor of God
• Time Is the Fire
• Fond Blue Hope
• Epilogue
• Sources

About the Author

Richard Adams Carey is assistant director of the MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University. His previous books include Raven’s Children: An Alaskan Culture at Twilight, Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman and The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire.

Reviews

"Carey writes with empathy and insight about how the town endured the shootings, and how it rebounded."-- "Valley News"

"Carey's tension-filled report of a small town's terror is portrayed with surprising love, bittersweetness, and hope, resulting in a beautifully written and enthralling true-crime tale."-- "Booklist (starred review)"

"Riveting and absolutely heartbreaking. . . . [Carey] does a masterful job of describing the bucolic but rugged setting of New Hampshire's own "wild frontier" and the people and personalities attracted to it."-- "New Hampshire Union Leader"

Thanks to fine writing, great story-telling and incredible research, the lives and spirits of the victims and all those wounded and traumatized are fully rendered. It's a book well worth your time."-- "New Hampshire Magazine"