Downriver

by Peter Collier

The Harts--an American family living an American legacy of love and violence in a brutal world where survival is all...

From the raw, pioneering grit of the Dakota Badlands in the 1870's, to the revolutionary ferment of Berkeley in the 1960's, the Harts where the embodiment of the real America. Rebels, dreamers, idealists, their spirit moved restlessly over the land. But when that spirit was brutally violated, when savage hands reached out of the primeval dark to rape, to murder, to destroy one of their own, it was fit that Cabell, last of the Harts--like his great-Grandfather before him--should strike out for justice, should reaffirm his love...in dark vengeance and bitter blood.

336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Founder of Encounter Books in California, Collier was publisher from 1998-2005. He co-founded the Center for the Study of Popular Culture with David Horowitz. Collier wrote many books and articles with Horowitz. Collier worked on the website FrontpageMag. He was an organizer of Second Thoughts conferences for leftists who have moved right.

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Reviews

[Aurianna Woodson · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first half was a nicely written semi-ramblimg story of several generations of family that I throughly enjoyed as a read-in-bed-before-I-fall-asleep-book. But then it took a turn as a very masculine revenge fantasy. Maybe there were warning signs from the beginning I missed, but I was very surprised and a little disappointed. That being said, it was well written, just too intense at 11pm.