![]() ![]() That earns a hug from Marty, and only readers familiar with the first books will be able to appreciate how far Judd has come when he hugs back. Judd proves innocent of the crimes, too, and in the climax risks his life to save Shiloh from drowning. Judd shows signs of authentic human feeling, actually laughing and joking (readers of the first two books will be shocked), and grieving when he must kill one of his hunting dogs. Marty is half-willing to give Judd the benefit of the doubt-and so defends the man to schoolmates on the bus, and even pays him an occasional visit. ![]() ![]() Judd Travers has stopped drinking and become less hostile nonetheless, years of bad feelings have left their mark, and his is the name that comes up most often in conjunction with a murder and some local robberies. The good news is that the dog doesn't die, although Marty, the narrator, gives readers that impression on the first page. In this story of a boy and his dog, and the brutal, angry man who finds the road to redemption at last, Naylor rounds off a trilogy that began with Shiloh (1991). ![]()
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