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"...palpable atmosphere and...seat-gripping suspense scenes. Energeticand spirited storytelling make this...an entertaining read." - Kirkus Reviews
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"...thrilling.... Engaging from the start, Leigh pushes the story forward with excitingforce, particularly with her crisp, clean sentences that shine withvivid detail. With great perception, Leigh masterfully develops hercharacters...with honest reflective writing.... Heartbreaking,nerve-wracking, and triumphant at times, Wake Not the Hangman is a deeply satisfying novel." - San Francisco Book Review
"...a fast-paced read with a lot of action..." - Apex Reviews
Thornton Guthrie works his father's land at gunpoint. The year is 1834, and men of the establishment have total control over their kin. Escaping is out of the question. Estranged from his abused mother, Thornton lives in isolation.
That changes when Thornton's father buys three slaves, William, Ronan, and Henry. Thornton loathes slavery and realizes that for the first time in fifteen years, his father--and his father's rifle--are outnumbered. Thornton dreams of joining forces with the men to plot an escape, but as the slave-owner's son, he must convince the men he is on their side while under the watchful barrel of his father's gun. He discovers he has something unexpected in common with thirty-six-year-old William and hazards a dangerous initial contact, hoping it won't cost him everything. Thornton's bravery sets in motion an audacious escape plan that, through a deadly turn of events, becomes a race against the clock further complicated by a crafty interloper on Guthrie Farms, Thornton's ill-timed first romance, and the lethal secret of one of the captives.
A tale of treachery, bondage, fellowship, and courage, Wake Not the Hangman depicts how one young man's desire to escape his wretched father leads to a much bigger quest: freedom for a band of newfound friends confined by servitude and the law. INCLUDES READER'S GUIDE.
- Sales Rank: #249923 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-07-10
- Released on: 2015-07-10
- Format: Kindle eBook
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"...palpable atmosphere and...seat-gripping suspense scenes. Energetic and spirited storytelling make this...an entertaining read." - Kirkus Reviews
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"...thrilling.... Engaging from the start, Leigh pushes the story forward with exciting force, particularly with her crisp, clean sentences that shine with vivid detail. With great perception, Leigh masterfully develops her characters...with honest reflective writing.... Heartbreaking, nerve-wracking, and triumphant at times, Wake Not the Hangman is a deeply satisfying novel." - San Francisco Book Review
"...a fast-paced read with a lot of action..." - Apex Reviews
A "Notable 100" Novel for 2015 - Shelf Unbound Magazine
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Depressing laws in early 19th century Missouri
By Ian J. Miller
This book involves settler-farmers and is set in Missouri in the early 19th century. Marcus Guthrie is something of a tyrant who beats his wife, and when his son, Thornton, misbehaved out in the fields when very young, he shot at him and nicked an ear. (This is unrealistic. A master sniper would have real trouble doing this deliberately with a modern rifle, and weapons of that time were a completely different matter.) Early in the book, Marcus decides to take on three slaves to keep the farm going, while he sits back and partakes of too much alcohol. Thornton effectively has to work in the same way as the slaves, so Thornton is effectively a slave, except he sleeps in the main house. The book is essentially an account of life of slaves in those times, except that Thornton, effectively being one of them, sneaks in books to one who can read. Later, it becomes too much, and they plan a slave escape.
The book has excellent descriptions, the atmosphere seems real, the characters are well drawn and overall it gives a picture of what life might have been like. (I have no idea as to how accurate it is.) There are some rather strong examples of brutality towards slaves, and the failings of the law at the time towards slaves, women, and just about anyone except the property owner. The book is very introspective, and a lot of time is spent on what the characters, and particularly Thornton, are feeling. Having said that, there are surprisingly few clues as to why certain decisions were taken while other possibilities were rejected. There are a number of references to Rip van Winkle, and the end of the book contains a major scene that occurs twenty years after the bulk. While it is a major scene, there was no lead-up explaining how the characters got into this situation, and for me, that was a little like having Hamlet's youth, his return to see the ghost, then everything deleted until the final scene. To summarize, the book is interesting, a lot of research went into it, but it really missed the chance to make a real impact. As for value for money, I think it is underpriced.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A Crime is Not Erased, thus Fear the Hangman
By Scarlett Jensen
It is 1834 in Colombia, Missouri and the protagonist, Thornton, is a 15 year old boy. He has built up a sentiment of hatred towards Marcus Guthrie who has handled him, his son, his slaves and his wife without mercy and robbed them from their dreams while brutally humiliating them. Thornton risks his life in their strife to be emancipated from Guthrie ' s shackles. Thornton wants to blossom like the crops he tended.
Guthrie bought slaves for labour on Guthrie s Farms and said: " they weren't like white men,....God did not intend for them to walk about like white men." Thus with that he implicated loss of freedom, deprivation and cruelty for the slaves.
The story takes us through a struggle to loosen the unfortunate from the intolerable discrimination of a drunkard while they lived under circumstances where one is hunted and ran the risk to be punished with "whippings to the removal of digits with a sharp blade to mutilation and hanging."
Under restricted circumstances one finds violence, betrayal, envy, jealousy, infidelity and love across the colour bar. The trapped conspired and tried to escape a 100 miles west where one answers to no man, but yourself forever.
Laws enforced segregation with guns.Today, 180 years further, there are new laws, and one realizes that how good life can be if you have freedom. We witness how being a slave sometimes felt then, that your spirit bent and shifted positions in order to better carry the burdens of bondage. We see how old men's spirits were permanently buckled.
As the author has training in law, she shares her knowledge of crime and punishment, she shows us how unfair the laws were concerning slaves and women. She discusses the crime of murder through her concept of the Hangman. Law then, would not listen to woman or slave.
Thornton kills and manages to escape his punishment for 20 years. Here the author parallels her story with the story of Rip van Winkle, a book published in 1819. Rip is the character created by Washington Irvine, who awakes to discover he has had the luxury to sleep for 20 years through the hardships of the American Revolution (1765 -1783).
With reference to Thornton this quotation: "His own freedom no longer mattered. His emancipation from Guthrie did everything but set him free. In the eyes of the law, he had committed a murder because: "Killing a white man to defend a slave would be impossible to plead a justifiable defence".
Thornton wished he could slumber for 20 years and awake when his problem was solved. The question is posed: Does a hangman sleep somewhere and when poked/stirred with bad deeds, dare to awaken? Yes, you should be aware of your own life and fear the sleeping hangman, the arm of the law.
Good deeds would not erase the crime and you will always pay for it. The Hangman is indiscriminate." He takes a life even who did not deserve the noose but could not be proved. Killing is never the answer.
This is a historical novel focusing on law, freedom and punishment, with specific reference to the fight for freedom of slaves(1834 -1855). The author has a note of caution to all lawbreakers: "Make no mistake for the rest of your life, you will be a wanted man."
A book for a human rights campaigner, law practitioners and readers who value a touch of literary fiction, touching reality.
Scarlett Jensen
23 September 2015
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
`From childhood's hour I have not been as others were' -- Edgar Allan Poe
By Grady Harp
Los Angeles author Deborah Leigh but she has lived and experienced life living in both Europe and the US and she has returned home to lie in downtown Los Angeles. She has experience as a magazine editor, a legal eagle, and an adventurer and all of those ingredients are evident in this her debut novel.
Historical fiction seems a natural genre for Deborah and the manner in which she weaves to dissect the concept of slavery and its effects on both slaves and slave owners, including not only the aspects we have learned form other books and films and history studies, but also that rare aspect of the connections between the paradoxical groups. Love plays a factor here, as does the sacred unity of family.
Deborah has supplied a well-considered synopsis: `Thornton Guthrie works his father's land at gunpoint. The year is 1834, and men of the establishment have total control over their kin. Escaping is out of the question. Estranged from his abused mother, Thornton lives in isolation. That changes when Thornton's father buys three slaves, William, Ronan, and Henry. Thornton loathes slavery and realizes that for the first time in fifteen years, his father--and his father's rifle--are outnumbered. Thornton dreams of joining forces with the men to plot an escape, but as the slave-owner's son, he must convince the men he is on their side while under the watchful barrel of his father's gun. He discovers he has something unexpected in common with thirty-six-year-old William and hazards a dangerous initial contact, hoping it won't cost him everything. Thornton's bravery sets in motion an audacious escape plan that, through a deadly turn of events, becomes a race against the clock further complicated by a crafty interloper on Guthrie Farms, Thornton's ill-timed first romance, and the lethal secret of one of the captives. A tale of treachery, bondage, fellowship, and courage that depicts how one young man's desire to escape his wretched father leads to a much bigger quest: freedom for three generations of prisoners confined by servitude and the law.'
In a unique but very wise structural decision, Deborah divides her story into three parts - Fallow Ground, Crop Rotation, and Harvest - each with double meanings as only a fine writer can serve.
Deborah's prose is poetic: `Thornton Guthrie kept one eye on the Hawken rifle his father pointed at him and one eye on the black-capped chickadees that nested in the eaves of the barn. Both scared him. If he let the birds swoop in and fly away with the spring wheat seeds he had just broadcast, his father might suspect a crop-theft conspiracy between Thornton and the birds and shoot Thornton, the bigger, slower, easier target. Marcus Guthrie had done it before, had shot his son. Thornton was seven and had milked the family cow just a half tick too slow. The animal had been ornery.' etc With an opening this intriguing and strong the reader is assured this is an author who is creating an important reputation on the basis of a debut novel. She has a very bright future. Grady Harp, September 15
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