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  1. Copyright Notice
  2. Dedication
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. Epigraph
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  54. Epilogue
  55. ALSO BY JOHN HART
  56. Praise
  57. About the Author
  58. Newsletter Sign-up
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—Bookreporter

“Unforgettable and propulsive … extremely well-written suspense with emotional depth.”

—AARP

“Often, the most gripping historicals take place during our immediate past as John Hart demonstrates in The Unwilling.… Hart skillfully mines the details of the early 1970s and the impact the Vietnam War had on the country.… The story’s strength is its deep examination of characters and the country. Each is a product of the times while trying to look to the future.”

—Oline H. Cogdill, South Florida Sun Sentinel

“A compulsively readable work propelled by not only race-against-time action but also the endearing bonds between siblings put at loose ends by war, prison, and addiction, John Hart’s The Unwilling provides a unique thriller, well suited for our times. Hart’s novel proves very much successful, as it allows readers a bit of escapism from the tumultuous world around them.”

—North Carolina Literary Review

“Hart explores matters of courage and cowardice, fear and family, combat and criminality as his narrative takes numerous turns and builds to a conclusion at once frightening and redemptive. Hart combines literary excellence with popular appeal. And in The Unwilling—a novel that evokes not only a particular time but also timeless issues—he again burnishes his stature.”

—The Free Lance-Star

“Hart’s writing is tense and powerful … a novel that you’ll be thinking about for a long time after you turn the final page.”

—Star Tribune

“Another scorcher from Hart … [he] keeps us engaged … subtly folding quiet, character-driven moments into the story while still powering the narrative toward an all-stops-out ending—and a chilling coda. Remember to breathe after you turn the last page.”

—Booklist (starred review)

Praise for John Hart

“John Hart can flat-out write.”

—David Baldacci

“A master storyteller.”

—Harlan Coben

“This generation’s Pat Conroy.”

—The Providence Journal

“Hart’s writing soars off the page with a lyricism that probably only James Lee Burke can match.”

—Daily Mail (UK)

“If you crave thrillers that are vividly beautiful, graphic, will make you bleed, try John Hart.”

—Patricia Cornwell

“Hart writes as if he is channeling William Faulkner, or perhaps collaborating with the Cormac McCarthy of the Blood Meridian era.”

—Bookreporter

About the Author

JOHN HART is the author of six New York Times bestsellers: The King of Lies, Down River, The Last Child, Iron House, Redemption Road, and The Hush. The only author in history to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel consecutively, John has also won the Barry Award, the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Book Award for Fiction, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His novels have been translated into thirty languages and can be found in more than seventy countries. You can sign up for email updates here.

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