Fool's Parade

Mattie & Lee & JOhnny & Chanty. An ex-union dynamiter...a bumbling bank robber...a boy convicted of rape who never had had a woman...and a fourteen-year-old girl from a houseboat whorehouse...They were on the run and they had reason to run hard. They were carrying a satchel filled with $25,452.32 and this was America in the year 1935, when every dllar was worth its weight in blood.... "Despite one rape, three murders, a train derailment, a bank embezzlement, assorted sweaty chases, a mob tearing down a jail, a snarling German shepherd dogs, Fool's Parade is an upbeat novel...extraordinary, engaging, entertaining...one doe sgive a damn about what happens." -- The New York Times.