Teran, Edgar Award finalist and author of "God Is a Bullet" and "Never Count Out The Dead," pens this haunting yet touching allegorical novel of a former Marine and the dog whose unabated goodness gives them both the strength to survive.
Boston Teran is the author of four previous novels. He has been nominated or won numerous awards including, the John Creasy Award, International IMPAC Award, Book of the Year in France, Book of the Year in Japan, and Readers Digest Best First Novel of the Year. Two of his novels are being developed into major motion pictures. His fifth novel, The Creed of Violence, which is to be published by in the fall of 2009 was bought by Universal Studios for the second highest price ever paid for an unpublished manuscript. Giv- The Story of a Dog and America is his sixth novel.