This book is as if the David Lynch, creator of Twin Peaks fame were writing novels. It's a very neonoir story of a hapless bartender and dreamer named Pierre Hunter, who by chance happens upon a beautiful woman, and large sum of money, and where his life goes from there. (The Driftless Area is an actual region of southwestern Wisconsin and the northern tip of Illinois.) Drury has a way with language and vivid phrase like describing a lawyer as "bringing a fog of cologne like the gift shop of a failing hospital" (Rating: 4.8-5.0 stars/5.0).