Rain Falls Like Mercy A Novel

by Todd, Jack

• ISBN13: 9781416598527
• ISBN10: 1416598529
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-14
• Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

Set against the sweeping backdrop of World War II, Rain Falls Like Mercy is a gripping story of a family and a country touched by the grand violence of war, the senseless violence of crime, and the intimate violence of the heart. Rain Falls Like Mercy opens with the murder investigation of a young girl in Wyoming in 1941. Tom Call, the young sheriff running the investigation, is in love with Juanita, the wife of Eli Paint, whose son Leo and grandson Bobby Watson are on duty with in the U.S. Navy. Almost overnight, the case is derailed by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, disrupting the lives of all involved. Bobby mans an antiaircraft gun during the attack, but his family must wait for weeks to learn his fate. Tom joins the U.S. Air Force and is deployed to England to fly bombers, still trying to pursue his murder investigation. His suspicion falls on Pardo Bury, the psychotic son of a wealthy rancher in Wyoming. As Pardo and Tom make their ways to their inevitable and shattering confrontation, Rain Falls Like Mercy shows Jack Todd's uncanny ability to zero in on his characters' emotional lives while simultaneously painting a sweeping picture of the historical events that shape their destinies.

Author Biography

Jack Todd is the author of the novels Sun Going Down and Come Again No More and the memoir Desertion, which won the Quebec Writer’s Federation First Book Prize and the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction. He lives in Montreal. Visit JackToddTheAuthor.com.