Blog Tour: RAVENS by George Dawes Green

Book Description: The Boatwrights just won 318 million dollars in the Georgia State lottery. It's going to be the worst day of their lives.

When Shaw McBride and Romeo Zderko pull up at a convenience store off I-95 in Georgia, their only thought is to fix a leaky tire and be on their way again to Florida-away from their dull Ohio tech-support jobs. But this happens to be the store from which a 318,000,000 million dollar Jackpot ticket has just been sold -- and when a pretty clerk accidentally reveals to Shaw the identity of the winning family, he hatches a ferociously audacious scheme: He and Romeo will squeeze the family for half their prize.

That night, he visits the Boatwright home and takes the family hostage, while Romeo patrols the streets nearby, prepared to murder the Boatwrights' loved ones at any sign of resistance. At first, the family offers none. But Shaw's plot depends on maintaining constant fear-merciless, unfaltering terror-and soon, under the pressure, everyone's sanity begins to unravel . . .

At once frightening, comic, and suspenseful, RAVENS is a wholly original and utterly compelling novel from one of our most talented writers.

Review: Shaw and Romeo are on the run from their hometown in Ohio. They did something they shouldn't of at their job, so now they are heading south. They are hoping to get some work on the boats in the Florida Keys. When Romeo's car starts pulling a bit, Shaw turns off the freeway into a local gas station. They are in some small town in Georgia and the gas station is filled with news and television vans. Curious, Shaw asks the clerk what all the hubbub is about, and she explains that they sold the winning lotto ticket; the jackpot.

Shaw gets it in his head that he wants, no he deserves, a piece of that golden pie and initiates his own investigation until he figures out who the winners are. A local family, The Boatwrights won the whole 318 million. With Romeo's help, Shaw approaches the family and has them terrorized into sharing that money with him. He tells them that if they try anything fishy, Romeo will kill members of their family and friends.

RAVENS is suspenseful, full of drama, and eerie. You come to know the Boatwrights as well as Shaw and Romeo. What drives people to do what they do is simply amazing. Green is a master of this thrilling mystery and the writing speaks for itself. Must read! Absolutely hard to put down.

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George Dawes Green is a highly acclaimed novelist and poet. He currently divides his time between Georgia and New York.

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