Russell B Crites: 2 books

Luke was running away from something but you can’t escape yourself. What in his past was it: school, hot rods, accidents, war, the girl he left behind, parties, work, or the railroad? There was something there. What is it? The past followed this Montana boy from the 50’s to the 80’s. It followed him always there, lurking. “The Dread”.

A Montana tale in the late 1920's. Prohibition is in full swing, but drinking and pool halls were a way of life. Ray Frost, a homesteader in this barren windswept land is struggling with the problems of his lonely life. Glimpse life in Northern Montana, the Hi-Line with Ray, and Geraldine, his mail...