"Immersive... Brutal... Primal..." KIRKUS Review Baer Creighton is a gifted distiller of fruited moonshine, cursed with the ability to detect even the subtlest deception. He lives in the woods next to his house and talks to his dog Fred... until Fred goes missing. A week later, harvesting apples in moonlight, Baer watches a string of headlights emerge from a distant wood. A single truck turns toward Baer, backs in, tosses Fred to the ditch. Baer vows to hunt down every man present at the fight ring and give him the cruelest death he can muster. But he tips his hand and begins a war of attrition against a cabal of men steeped in blood sport and thirsty for violence. Baer's moxie will either lead him to unleash the most horrifying vengeance he can distill, or paradoxically, back to humanity, and redemption. Or both. Literary depth. Thriller pace. Grab your copy now! ★★★★★ MANHATTAN BOOK REVIEW "If you enjoy stories of betrayal and vengeance, with just a touch of the unreal, My Brother's Destroyer is a fantastic read, and I highly recommend it for your next book." ★★★★★ SEATTLE BOOK REVIEW "I was left completely in awe." Prepare yourself for a battle of good and evil unlike any you've seen. With rave reviews from Publishers Weekly (starred review and best of the week), IndieNext List, Kirkus, BlueInk Review, Foreword Reviews, Seattle Book Review, Manhattan Book Review, Indie Reader and more, if you haven't read Clayton Lindemuth's unique brand of literary noir, what are you waiting for?*** **Review Kirkus Review:  Lindemuth writes in a Southern dialect that perfectly evokes the woods and hollows of the Carolina hills. Baer's voice is as textured as the landscape ("All my life I got out the way so the liars and cheats could go on lying and cheating one another. I can spot a liar like nobody"), and the brutal acts that he describes are timeless and primal. Even within the bounds of this vernacular, Lindemuth manages to fashion sharp observations: "Cory Smylie was irredeemable, but given the vastness of Stipe's enterprise, odd jobs presented that were uniquely suited to irredeemable men."  ...the world of Gleason is so immersive and Baer's vendetta so oddly compelling... Fans of noir tales set in rural America will particularly welcome this addition to the genre. **kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/clayton-lindemuth/my-brothers-destroyer/ ** ** **★★★★★ SEATTLE BOOK REVIEW**  Lindemuth is a master at tying what could be disparate plot elements together, forming a coherent and chilling whole. One last detail (just in case you weren't already hooked): Baer has the ability to tell when someone is lying. He sees their eyes flash red and feels little sparks of electricity. This is the sort of plot element that separates good writers from the merely mediocre. Not once did Baer's ability feel like a contrivance. In fact, it blended seamlessly in with the rest of the book. In short, I was left completely in awe. ★★★★★ MANHATTAN BOOK REVIEW If you enjoy stories of betrayal and vengeance, with just a touch of the unreal, My Brother's Destroyer is a fantastic read, and I highly recommend it for your next book. Reader Views: Loved this Story! "My Brother's Destroyer" by Clayton Lindemuth is a thrilling story with intense, horrific drama, displaying the ultimate depths of pure evil, and the lengths one man will go to for vengeance.  Fascinating story! This tale was gripping from the very start with the author's enthralling writing style pulling readers into the drama on the first page. There are no fillers in this story - I found every word impactful and necessary to move the plot along at a swift pace...  Written in authentic dialect, the tone is unique and impressive, a multi-dimensional experience transporting readers directly into each scene.  I highly recommend "My Brother's Destroyer" by Clayton Lindemuth. His distinct writing style, with a unique blend of humor,sarcasm and darkness, will appeal to readers of thrilling suspense and horror and those that love a strong-willed protagonist on a mission.   Portland Book Review  From the dog fights with explicit wound descriptions to some mildly incestuous behavior to the nigh unreadable hillbilly vernacular of main character Baer Creighton, there is a lot in this novel that is simply awful to get through. Frankly, though, that shouldn't be all this book is judged by. Sometimes fiction has to be awful in order to reflect the awfulness that exists in reality. It is not a book that most audiences will enjoy, but it is a well written book... if you have the stomach for it, it could be worth your time. From the Author Baer Creighton was a fun character to write. He's a cross between a half-drunk MacGyver and I don't know what, a deeply moral redneck. He feels physical pain when people lie, and given the amount of that going on, he's a recluse. So when his story unfolds and he starts finding conflict in every direction, all while trying to hue to a super-moral code that vengeance has to be scaled to the harm received, there are plenty of quirks for an author to exploit to keep the drama tense and the humor dark. I'd have to say that what I enjoy the most about the book is Baer's dialogues with his dog Fred. Readers have given me all kinds of insight about what's going on there, and I love all of it. I hope you find as much fun reading My Brother's Destroyer as I had writing it! 

A high-stakes story of political intrigue against the backdrop of a lethal contest that finds Blackfoot Solomon Bull trapped between a murderous conspiracy and the system his father resisted to the death. A tale with the breakneck pace of a sprint through a burning desert, full of harsh beauty and unrelenting menace. --Dennis Tafoya, author of Dope Thief  **Solomon Bull is a smart and darkly funny political thriller that takes institutional depravity to task... Solomon--sharp-tongued,young, and fit, with a penchant for wry vulgarities and just a hint of aphilosopher's soul--is training for the Desert Dog, a privately sponsored racerumored to exist for the recruitment of mercenaries... The text is electric with evocativedescriptions--the pull of a sticky floor on shoes; the sizzling heat of a desertpath... A pinch of cultural references, a smattering of literary nods, and justa dash of nose-thumbing at Godwin's Law help to round out brash, oftengood-humored, and libertarian-flavored passages... Beneath this edgy writing lies a barbedand complex plot, involving shadow governments, abusive behaviors, andfrightening global conspiracies, that snags attention and propels the storyforward... the work remains involving throughout, through to an end that is asmuch satisfying as it is a new beginning. ** -Excerpts from ForeWord Reviews, forewordreviews.com/reviews/solomon-bull/ Have you heard of the Desert Dog? It kills people who take it on. Blackfoot Indian Solomon Bull trains for the ultra-dangerous endurance race called Desert Dog. Winning the race would solidify Solomon's inheritance. His father was a rebel who died in the 1980's fighting the US government for the American Indian Movement. Ex-mercenary Cal Barrett designed Desert Dog to shred people. Rumor is he recruits winners into a clandestine paramilitary outfit. Solomon is approached by Rachel, a government official who'll do anything to persuade him to infiltrate Cal Barrett's outfit. She warns him that something big is on the horizon. Meanwhile, crooked Senator Cyman's security chief is on Solomon's tail. Defacing Cyman's re-election billboards sparked a bigger reaction than Solomon bargained for. The pendulum between assimilation and war is swinging. Will Solomon get eaten by the machine his father died fighting?  Can one man fight the evil that surrounds him and win?Solomon Bull is Clayton Lindemuth at his rebel noir best. You'll find all the "thrilling... visceral... unsparing..." prose that earned his debut Cold Quiet Country the coveted starred review from Publishers Weekly.**Review★★★★★ 5 stars for Solomon BullA book that manages to have multiple WTF plot twists gets points for being surprising.... "Solomon Bull" presents several conspiracies centering on the main character and the personal struggle for identity of the same. I'd summarize it as James Bond meets the Southwest and militia conspiracy theories to create an inventive novel. I give the book five stars on complexity and novelty. ---Tamara Wilhite, buff.ly/2nJ7dIt★★★★★ Five stars for Solomon Bull: When the Friction has its Machine.... It's a twisted countdown to a brutish desert Arizona race in Clayton Lindemuth's newest Rebel Noir novel... The author's straightforward approach to storytelling draws readers in from the get-go as he nimbly weaves a good-versus-evil theme. Including a little bit of everything one would want in a political thriller... It should appeal to a broad audience and gain many new followers for Lindemuth's fine work. --Publishers Daily Reviews, buff.ly/2oFunjwA virile tale about a tough-as-nails Blackfoot Indian... aroaming badass... a well-crafted, solid thriller with tense fight scenes andTarantino-esque banter ...an entertaining read. --blueink REVIEWFrom the Inside Flap Clayton Lindemuth has been recognized by Publishers Weekly (starred review and best of the week), Foreword, Chicks Dig Books, Indie Next List (Dec. 2012), Spinetingler Magazine, Hardboiled Wonderland, various independent best of the year mentions, (DoSomeDamage, among others) and now published in France and charmingly reviewed by Le Monde, La Croix, Le Figaro, and most appreciatedly, by bloggers and tweeters like you, everywhere. GOLD QUALITY SEAL for Solomon Bull by BooksGoSocial. 

On his last day in power, with a blizzard threatening 18 inches of snow, Sheriff Bittersmith is called to the scene of a crime. A farmer has been stabbed clean through the neck with a pitchfork. Two sets of tracks lead from the barn, and the dead man's frantic wife exclaims her daughter is missing. Convinced it was Gale G'Wain, the orphan who worked at the farm, Bittersmith follows the vanishing footprints into the storm.Three miles away, Gale G'Wain is alone and close to dead. He's holed up in an empty farmhouse, half-dressed and nearly dead after falling through lake ice. Innocent, but unlikely to ever stand trial in a town as corrupt as Bittersmith, he loads his gun and prepares to defend himself against the dead man's bloodthirsty sons and the Sheriff's Department.Set in small town Wyoming in the 70s and unfolding in a single day, Clayton Lindemuth's debut novel, Cold Quiet Country, explores small-town corruption and the lengths some people will go to exact revenge.With a deft hand and sinister eye, Clayton Lindemuth reminds us that the green, idyllic landscape of Middle America can suddenly become an ominous backdrop for violence and treachery. Suspenseful, intelligent and bold, COLD QUIET COUNTRY brings a new edge to the world of modern noir and readers will not be able to look upon rolling hills, pastoral fields and picturesque barns without a sense of foreboding anytime soon.ReviewPublishers Weekly ( ★ Starred Review★ ) "Lindemuth's impressive debut...is a go-for-the-jugular country noir.... and his visceral prose and unsparing tone are wonderfully reminiscent of such modern rural noir masters as Tom Franklin and Donald Ray Pollock." --  ForeWord Reviews ★★★★★  Clayton Lindemuth's stunning first novel is all about good hunting down evil on a snowbound day, but common notions about good men no longer apply in the moral darkness that is Bittersmith. As Gale waits for his accusers, including Sheriff Bittersmith, to track him down, he reflects on his options: on one hand, "obedience and expeditiousness;" on the other, "standing against a world gone mad." Through Gale, Lindemuth is unsparing in his advocacy of the "honorable fight."