In 1876, three US Army scouts leading an infantry column arrive at the scene of the Battle of Bighorn on the morning after General Custer's defeat. They are the first to witness the aftermath of the massacre. This novel conveys the extreme emotions of men in war.

In 1876, three US Army scouts leading an infantry column arrive at the scene of the Battle of Bighorn on the morning after General Custer's defeat. They are the first to witness the aftermath of the massacre. This novel conveys the extreme emotions of men in war.

'A raw, visceral account of man's mindless inhumanity to man...frightening' Malcolm Reid, Time Out

'This is Western à la Peckinpah, in which almost metaphysical violence erupts from the dust and sweep of the American plains' Scott Bradfield, The Times

'Set in the months after the battle of Little Bighorn, when the United States Army's mission to herd the last free native tribes onto reservations has become - without pretense - one of bloody retribution, Andrew Huebner's first novel is about three young Army scouts who come face to face with their complicity in a series of slaughters' Steven Varni, New York Times Book Review

'From the first page of this powerful and evocative book, the reader is drawn into a gripping novel which vividly captures the horror and shock of Custer's defeat at Little Bighorn...Huebner successfully turns this accomplished first novel into a heroic epic. His depiction of the inner torment of the soldiers is matched by an equally powerful description of a magnificent and sometimes terrifying landscape' Yorkshire Post