Description: Praise for The Bully of Order: "This crackling, lightning-bolt energy and patient attention to even the lowest of characters recalls the work of Denis Johnson... helped along by an energizing sense of humor and a virtuosic control of plot... Hart has created a Dickensian portrait of the barely settled Pacific Northwest." - New York Times Book Review "Mesmerizing.... Hart has conjured a singular, searing world. When you step into this novel you submit to its dream... [and] believe in his large gift that leaves you stunned and breathless. A wonderful, unique portrait of a particular landscape I now see anew." - Amanda Coplin, author of The Orchardist "Hart's sense of place is brilliant.... There are dazzling characterizations... [and] a dense, deep and illuminating narrative... of greed and ambition and of fathers and sons.... Think the brutal realities of McCarthy's Blood Meridian set among the primeval forests of the Pacific Northwest frontier." - Kirkus, starred review "Trouble No Man is a standout in dystopian fiction, a post-punk Western chronicling one man's decline and fall amid an empire's. Brian Hart is the rare literary talent who can move readers with a subtle knowledge of both tenderness and horror. A deeply impressive, insightful work of realism." - Brian Van Reet, Author of Spoils "Luminous, brutal, and tenderhearted, Trouble No Man rewires tired and toxic cowboy tropes to build a newer, truer sort of Western." - Michael Christie, author of If I Fall, I Die "Roy's evolution from self-sabotaging youth to family man, and his journey's achingly nostalgic tone, are a compelling counterweight to the bursts of cruelty and raw violence in his encounters with militiamen. Dystopian thrillers can be conversational gold in book-group settings, and this one offers story-driving humanity that refuses to take a back seat to the well-crafted neo-western setting." - Booklist (starred review) "As a social critique, it's interesting, as a character-portrait, Faulknerian....a future disturbingly close to the present." - Wall Street Journal

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