On the Appalachian Trail, someone has been killing hikers, and the only person to put the pieces together is a heartbroken nobody walking the trail in homemade armor, calling himself a knight. To save a stranger, he'll have to become the thing he's only been pretending to be. At forty-eight, divorced, broke, laid off from his career, Martin Cole has done the most ridiculous and most honest thing of his life: sold off everything he owns, assembled a suit of medieval armor, and set out to walk the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine as a knight. People laugh at his shield. People glance nervously at his sword. Nobody quite knows what to make of Martin, least of all himself. But there's a name in a shelter register that shouldn't be there, written in a careful, deliberate hand. There are hikers who started north and never arrived. There are notes now, fragments of chivalric verse, left for someone to find, by a monster who has gone unseen for years because no one was looking, until now.
Atmospheric, sad, and unexpectedly violent. Trail Knight is a literary novel that walks the line between absurd and sincere and refuses to let go of either... Into the Wild meets Don Quixote, with Deliverance waiting all too close. Can a broken man playing the hero ever truly become one and what will it cost him to try?
Genre: Mystery
Atmospheric, sad, and unexpectedly violent. Trail Knight is a literary novel that walks the line between absurd and sincere and refuses to let go of either... Into the Wild meets Don Quixote, with Deliverance waiting all too close. Can a broken man playing the hero ever truly become one and what will it cost him to try?
Genre: Mystery
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