Ken Kuhlken
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Ken Kuhlken
It’s late summer, 1972, up in California’s redwood forests. Clifford Hickey, scheduled to perform a guitar gig at the local folk festival before trucking off to law school, arrives at his brother Alvaro’s peaceful woodland campsite. And within moments Alvaro, combat trained, is faced with six armed men in badges crashing the camp, and runs. Clifford, surprised, is arrested and brutally cuffed. He then learns that a young man, one of the sheriffs’ nephews, has just been murdered. Alvaro is the posse’s quarry.
So here’s Clifford, on the brink of adult life, pitched into not just a murder but what develops into a duel between the Hickeys—for his father and mother soon drive up—and the law, between the Hickeys and the Cossacks—who seemingly have their own agenda for Alvaro and, between the Hickeys and the locals, and finally between the Hickeys and their own past.
