Description: "This is before the accident. No one is dead yet. Blood circulates just as it should, two ounces per pump of the heart". So begins the extraordinary story of Carter Clay, a Vietnam veteran and drifter who finds himself drunkenly driving a van on a Florida highway and smashes into a car containing the Alitz family: Joe and Katherine, distinguished paleontologists on vacation with their daughter, Jersey Joe is killed in the crash; Katherine and Jersey are seriously wounded. Aghast at what he has done, Carter Clay gets a job in the hospital where mother and daughter are being rehabilitated. In an attempt to redeem himself, he insinuates himself into Jersey and Katherine's lives -- without them suspecting that he is the cause of their plight. At turns suspenseful, psychologically complex, and inhabited by characters that will haunt your memory long after you have turned the last page, Carter Clay is a magnificent novel, an unforgettable tale of mercy, forgiveness, and the possibility of redemption.

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