

Later, they stop in a small town and there’s a strange moment where the bassist sees a young girl giving out water in the town, and this inspires or sparks or even creates in him an idea that the band should write one last song together, each contributing to the lyrics. The band decides to finish the tour and reassess from there. This is only somewhat mitigates by the fact that each wants to quit touring music altogether and not leave for a different band. The novel opens on an increasingly uncomfortable meal in which first one, then another, of the bandmates declares their intention to leave. Here, it’s 2008, and we begin with a small tier touring band three years into their existence. This book is one of the few book he’s written in that time period that are not from that series.


In the last twenty years, Robert McCammon has mostly been writing for his Matthew Corbett series, and given that there’s eight of those and they probably average 500 pages each, I’ve been waiting to start them. “Nomad decided he would have to kill the waitress.”
