Devil's Divide

Jeffrey M. Anderson

Lives can unravel quickly; nations even faster. In a double-punch, Clay Holloway’s wife, Madeline, decamps to Boston on a trial separation and the San Francisco company he runs is hit with crippling litigation. Next, the world economy collapses – in one day. The nation wavers between anarchy and civility; all systems are stop, Madeline now unreachable. If the country can’t be saved maybe his marriage can. Clay embarks on a perilous bicycle odyssey across a continent with broken communications, little fuel, and less confidence in its new currency or the government behind it. He grinds eastward against a shifting pageant of mountains, desert, and engaging characters until, just short of the Mississippi, a man in a ’57 Chevy materializes on the empty highway. Their encounter will change Clay’s mission—and the future of the country.

Devil’s Divide is a witty, literate satire about national myth, identity, and the chaos lurking in the complexity of the modern world.