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With the verve and gift for gripping storytelling that made his previous books international bestsellers, R.J. Ellory returns with a dramatic saga of murder and retribution, set in the tumultuous 1960s. Daniel Ford and Nathan Verney were six years old when they first met by a South Carolina lake and became best friends against all odds Daniel was white, and Nathan was black. Thirty years later, Daniel is convicted of Nathan s murder, and he now faces the long, lonely walk to the electric chair. With time running out until his execution, Daniel tells a sympathetic priest his story, sweeping through first loves, Vietnam, and, finally, the pair s flight from the draft, which ended in Nathan's brutal murder. A powerful vision of the American South in an age of upheaval, "Candlemoth "is a stunning suspense novel and an unforgettable tale of lost friendship."