A witty noirDon Quixote…a blackly comic fable about emptiness, loneliness and the hollow allure of gold-Financial TimesIt is 1851,for gold has swept the American frontier. Two brother – the notorious Eli and Charlie Sisters – are on the road to California, following the trail of an elusive prospector, Hermann Kermit Warm. On this odyssey Eli and his brother cross paths with a remarkable cast of characters – losers, cheaters, and ne’er-do-wells from all stripes of – and Eli begins to question what he does for a living, and whom he does it for.Unforgettable-Sunday TelegraphA vision of searing originality-Sunday TimesGripping and heart-warming-GuardianA boldly eloquent adventure and novel about a man trying to live a better life-Metro