In The River of Kings, award-winning author Taylor Brown artfully weaves three narrative strands - two brothers' journey, their father's past, and the dramatic history of an ancient river's earliest people - to evoke a legendary place and its powerful hold on the human imagination. Brothers Hunter and Lawton Loggins set off to kayak Georgia's Altamaha River bearing their father's ashes toward the sea. Hunter is a college student, Lawton a Navy SEAL on leave; both young men were raised by an angry, enigmatic shrimper who loved the river, and whose death remains a mystery that his sons hope to resolve. As the brothers proceed downriver, their story is interwoven with that of Jacques Le Moyne, an artist who accompanied the 1564 expedition to found a French settlement at the river's mouth, which began as a search for riches and ended in a bloody confrontation with Spanish conquistadors and native tribes, leaving the fort in ruins and a few survivors fleeing for their lives. Twining past and present in one compelling narrative, and illustrated with drawings that survived the 1564 expedition, The River of Kings is Taylor Brown's second novel: a dramatic and rewarding adventure through history, myth, and the shadows of family secrets.

Two brothers travel a storied river's past and present in search of the truth about their father's death.

About the Author
Taylor Brown grew up on the Georgia coast. He has lived in Buenos Aires, San Francisco, and the mountains of western North Carolina. His fiction has appeared in more than 20 publications, he is the recipient of the Montana Prize in Fiction, and was a finalist in both the Machigonne Fiction Contest and the Doris Betts Fiction Prize. Fallen Land was his first novel; his third novel, Gods of Howl Mountain, will be published in March 2018 by SMP. He lives in North Carolina.


Book Information
ISBN 9781250165510
Author Taylor Brown
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint St Martin's Press
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 360g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 147mm * 23mm