Latest Blurb for THE BLACK HARVEST (FORTHCOMING 2021)

25 October 2020

My sincere thanks to Madison Smartt Bell for his very generous blurb of my forthcoming novel (2021) THE BLACK HARVEST.

“It may seem a bit odd to call a novel set in the nineteenth century timely, but the partisan warfare at the heart of Daren Dean’s The Black Harvest has never really gone away. It’s happening all around the world right now and right now, in the fall of 2020, we have even seen a few preliminary skirmishes here in the United States. Dean’s closely researched account of guerilla fighting in Civil War era Kansas and Missouri shows just how very, very bad it can get. With the antic verve of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and the Old Testament rigor of Andrew Lytle’s The Long Night, this novel represents historical fiction at its very best.”

Madison Smartt Bell, Author of such novels as All Souls Rising, Devil's Dream, Waiting for the End of the World, and many others