TIM GAUTREAUX THE CLEARING SOFTBACK NOVEL IN SOUTH AFRICA

The story centers around two brothers, Byron and Randolph Aldridge, sons of a Pennsylvania lumber baron. Byron is the oldest and is being groomed to take over the business from their father when he leaves for World War I. He returns from the war just a scarred remnant of his former self and has no interest in the family business. Byron heads out on his own, west and south from his Pennsylvania home and disappears from sight. The family loses all trace of him until several years later when a company employee spots him as a lawman in a mill town deep in the cypress swamps of Louisiana. Sceptre neat ex library softback novel in neat protector, well-binded clean pages, 374 pages.