Fierce People

Fierce People

1978: Lower East Side, New York. Fifteen-year-old Finn Earl&#39;s mother, Liz, is a thirty-two year-old masseuse with a taste for cocaine. When Liz&#39;s habit forces them to flee the city, they find protection under the wing of one her clients, ageing billionaire Mr Osborne. In Vlyvalle, a golden playground for the super-rich, Finn discovers a people who are stranger, more savage, and more secretive than any tribe in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. Offered a new life and new friends amongst the decadent and beautiful denizens of Osborne&#39;s empire, Finn falls in love and grows up fast. He&#39;s living a twisted approximation of the American dream - and for a moment everything he wants is there for the taking. But in America, social-climbing is a blood sport. Even on what should be the happiest night of Finn&#39;s life, on an island in the middle of a private lake, naked and high with Maya, Osborne&#39;s bewitching granddaughter, someone is watching him from the depths of the forest...and laughing. <br /> <br /> A modern coming-of-age novel in the tradition of HUCKLEBERRY FINN, and a portrait of America as vivid and strange as THE GREAT GATSBY, FIERCE PEOPLE marks the emergence of a dazzling new talent.