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The steady tick of aged Regulator wall clock and the squeak of overhead fan turning slowly are soft but insistent, counting down the night, as the high desert thrums just like a half-remembered Victrola song. The sounds are below the consciousness of Winchell Dear, an old-time gambler, a Texas poker player on the southern circuit, as he waits for something . . . something vague that his life of chance tells him is evil and moving his way.
In Diablo Canyon, a distant part of Winchell Dear’s ranch, Peter Long Grass squats by the campfire, contemplating the profile he saw moving across the ridge of Guapa Mountain one hour ago, taking into consideration the gambler’s housekeeper, Sonia Dominguez, about the small, quiet world he has fashioned definately not civilization and what undefined existence might now be threatening it. He gathers his tools and starts to run over the desert floor.
And boring toward most of them is a cream-colored Lincoln Continental with two men aboard. Traveling from LA on the mission they’ve been given, they may be professionals, cool and implacable in the beginning, but becoming steadily more confused by the strange landscape they may be passing through. Forty minutes of their task, they ready themselves, while a kitchen wall clock ticks its way through the long nights Winchell Dear.
The Long Night of Winchell Dear finds master storyteller Robert James Waller at his best as he takes us in to the shadowy world of high-stakes poker fought in the trunk rooms of Amarillo and Little Rock, and headlong toward the story’s stunning finale of chaotic terror, where an unexpected hero emerges.
