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"Brian Hart's THE BULLY OF ORDER does what only the best works of fiction can do: it brilliantly imagines those parts of life that history all too often fails to record. This is a thoroughly engrossing story told in mesmerizing prose. I highly recommend it."--Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds

"After a relatively quiet debut, Brian Hart has come back with a stunning second novel-a work would qualify as a lifetime achievement for most writers. You do not have to read very far to see that Brian Hart has vaulted squarely into the first rank of American novelists."--Philipp Meyer, author of The Son

"Brian Hart writes like a dream. In this haunting, often brutal tale of failed fathers and abandoned sons, set in the logging industry a century ago, are scenes of aching beauty."--James Magnuson, author of The Hounds of Winter

"Mesmerizing...Hart has conjured a singular, searing world. When you step into this novel you submit to its dream... you believe in his large gift that leaves you stunned and breathless. A wonderful, unique portrait of a particular landscape I now see anew."--Amanda Coplin, author of The Orchardist

"An epic novel of violence, depravity, and mayhem...Brian Hart writes like Cormac McCarthy in overdrive. What talent, what nerve, what a wondrous and spellbinding book. THE BULLY OF ORDER is part creation myth, part apocalyptic thriller, and it's peopled with charlatans, swindlers, and murderers who will haunt your dreams."--John Dufresne, author of No Regrets, Coyote

"Not a writer of half-measures, Hart brilliantly re-creates the rugged life in the Pacific Northwest logging camps of the 1890s. A riveting, powerful tale."--Library Journal

"Brilliant... Hart paints a vivid picture of the brutality and venality of the old Northwest Territories."--Austin American-Statesman

"THE BULLY OF ORDER possesses a strange magnetism...its irresistible, multi-layered plotline will tug you all the way through a story that captures the gritty lawlessness of the Northwest's beginnings."--High Country News

"Ambitious and beautifully harsh . . . Hart's stunning language builds into a textured and wonderfully thorny book. . . . Its huge scope and panoramic sympathies make it compelling and immersive...Bully of Order warmed and saddened and wondered me like the life of Huckleberry Finn."--Dallas Morning News

"This crackling, lightning-bolt energy and patient attention to even the lowest of characters recalls the work of Denis Johnson...helped along by an energizing sense of humor and a virtuosic control of plot...Hart has created a Dickensian portrait of the barely settled Pacific Northwest."--New York Times Book Review