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The Old Man's Place

By: John Sanford
Narrated by: Shawn Compton
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A trio of vicious World War One veterans descend on the farm in the Adirondack mountains where one of them grew up and his father now lives alone. They embark on, happily wreaking drunken havoc at the old man's place and in the nearby town. But when a naïve, mail-order bride arrives, she ignites a tinderbox of resentment, lust, and betrayal among the men that explodes in brutal depravity, bloody violence, and shocking death.

This hard-boiled, literary masterpiece includes a new introduction by Jack Mearns, author of John Sanford: An Annotated Bibliography.

Previously published as The Hard Guys and filmed as the 1971 motion picture My Old Man's Place.

©1935, 2021 John Sanford; Introduction copyright 2021 by Jack Mearns (P)2022 Tantor Fiction Genre Fiction Hard-Boiled Historical Literary Fiction Mystery Suspense
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I love John Sanford's descriptive writing, rich character development, and captivating story lines. This story though was too gruesome for me, at this moment in my life.

Gruesome

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Great new storyline and characters. Exciting and surprising twists. Finished in two listens. Just ordered book two and am anxious for book three.


Sanford Excels

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all those details but missing the last sentence? why tell a story if you can't complete it.

ending

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Not the normal Sanford plot line but left me wanting more as John Sanford always does

What a great listen

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Not able to complete this. Very slow moving. No depth to the characters. Waste of time/

don't waste your time

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This story started small but had a great ending. Thank you John. You are a master.

John Sandford does it again

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Never really understood the kids reasoning for hating dad, or why it took so long to move the story along. Unbelievable change in attitude of major character, Critical event, kid changes his mind about dad, falls on sword, the end.
Love Sanford, hated this book.

slow- then abruptly done

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I listened to this book because of all the people whining about it being to brutal. I was sorely disappointed when nothing happened the entire book until the end. and even that wasn't very brutal at all. ANY book in the Prey series by John Sanford is more brutal that this lame piece of garbage book.

Not very brutal at all.

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Violent and reminded me of people I have known living in small towns and the south in the 70s. Only book of his that I didn’t like

Didn’t believe John Sanford wrote this

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