My Brother's Destroyer: Low Profanity Edition

by Clayton Lindemuth

A moonshiner with a surreal gift
A country strongman
And a talking dog

Baer Creighton is a gifted distiller of fruited moonshine, capable of detecting even the subtlest lies. He lives in the woods next to his house, philosophizes with his dog Fred, and writes letters to his high school love Ruth--who long ago chose Baer's brother.

Baer keeps a low profile. Everyone is happy drinking his sublime moonshines -- until Fred goes missing. A week later, while Baer harvests apples in the moonlight, a chain of headlights emerges from the woods. A single truck tosses a bundle to the ditch.

When you discover who stole Fred, you'll know you've found a new master of the dark surreal.

And when you see what Baer does to him...

Them...

You haven't read a novel like this.

I promise.

Kirkus Lindemuth writes in a Southern dialect that perfectly evokes the woods and hollows of the Carolina hills. Baer's voice is as textured as the landscape ("All my life I got out the way so the liars and cheats could go on lying and cheating one another. I can spot a liar like nobody"), and the brutal acts that he describes are timeless and primal. Even within the bounds of this vernacular, Lindemuth manages to fashion sharp "Cory Smylie was irredeemable, but given the vastness of Stipe's enterprise, odd jobs presented that were uniquely suited to irredeemable men."

...the world of Gleason is so immersive and Baer's vendetta so oddly compelling... Fans of noir tales set in rural America will particularly welcome this addition to the genre.

Genres: Fiction

278 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2020

About the author

Am I right? You're smarter than most, embrace old fashioned morals, love your country, dogs, and guns... and dig ruthless fiction...

Hi! I'm Clayton Lindemuth, and my novels embrace rural noir truth. Mind your own business, be slow to anger. But don't ever back down to evil. Justice happens when the wicked die.

If we're tracking so far, I wrote My Brother's Destroyer, and all the rest, just for you.

You'll stay awake too late, underline fun new ways to cuss, muse about new philosophies and read random passages to strangers to make the world a better place.

Literary depth. Thriller pace. If you've got the stomach to watch evil men die, dress for the woods and grab a lamp. We've work to do.

Reviews

[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A deftly woven plot which you have to admire, spelling errors and all. Baer Creighton had an unusual gift...two gifts actually. Baer made the best moonshine ever and he could tell when a person was lying by the red in their eyes and the electric current that ran through his body. Baer and his brother Larry fought over the same girl, Larry won and Baer spent the next 30 years living in the woods and selling his 'shine. What transpires next is hatred Baer has for the man who runs the pitbull fighting ring, his brother and the man who killed his dog. Read in one day, the story is definitely action packed.

[Al Beard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best descriptions ever. True to life.

The book is as about as real as life comes. The author tells it like it is. Some people may consider the book a little dark, but personally cannot wait to read the entire series. It helps to from be from the mountains.

[Thomas Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed the writing style. It kept the pace lively. The characters came alive off the written page. The dialog often revealed the characters, not descriptions. That was unique. The ending was not at an obvious given. Great read!

[Helen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, that was different! A moonshiner who loved his dog and who could tell when someone lied to him. There’s no sympathy for the evil men in the story but one wonders what comes next?

[Sally Bailey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Struggled in the beginning, but then started understanding the dialogue. Very interesting, got so I couldn't put it down.