02950cam a2200553 i 4500 1172409558 TxAuBib 20240321120000.0 230926s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022513568 9780062948083 hardcover 0062948083 hardcover TxAuBib rda Frazier, Charles, author. The trackers : a novel / Charles Frazier. First edition. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023] ©2023. 324 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-324). While on assignment to create a mural for the Dawes, Wyoming Post Office, painter Val Welch finds himself entranced by his hosts, John and Eve Long, but when Eve flees with a valuable painting, John recruits Val to track her down. "Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyoming. Through a stroke of luck, he's landed a New Deal assignment to create a mural representing the region for their new Post Office. A wealthy art lover named John Long and his wife Eve have agreed to host Val at their sprawling ranch. Rumors and intrigue surround the couple: Eve left behind an itinerant life riding the rails and singing in a western swing band. Long holds shady political aspirations, but was once a WWI sniper--and his right hand is a mysterious elder cowboy, a vestige of the violent old west. Val quickly finds himself entranced by their lives. One day, Eve flees home with a valuable painting in tow, and Long recruits Val to hit the road with a mission of tracking her down. Journeying from ramshackle Hoovervilles to San Francisco nightclubs to the swamps of Florida, Val's search for Eve narrows, and he soon turns up secrets that could spark formidable changes for all of them."-- Book jacket. 20240321. 1929. fast Art thefts Fiction. Painters. Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Depressions 1929 Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Upper class families Fiction. Historical Fiction. FICTION / Historical. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Small Town & Rural. bisacsh Upper class families. fast Secrecy. fast Depressions. fast Art thefts. fast Missing persons. fast Painters. fast Fiction. fast Historical fiction. fast Novels. fast Novels. TXMCP