It is north of Frederica at the interchange between Delaware Route 1 and Bowers Beach Road/Clapham Road.

A lot of the material seemed extraneous and unnecessary, and a more directed storyline with one focus would’ve made for easier reading. I thought dragging my feet would work to my benefit, but I’m still the first effing person to post a review.

For some reason, I had some trouble with the back and forth - perhaps because it took so long for things to develop. If there is usually nothing wrong with a plot-driven story (as opposed to one that is character-driven), I have to agree with you on your need to establish some link with the characters, and care for them: when this element is missing, the enjoyment of a book suffers.

Three bounty hunters meet up in the 60's, (and again some years later), and agree to help a woman check on her nephew, who had been taken by her brother-in-law to an isolated spot in the mountains. This novel has not turned me off of Cutter’s works completely, and I will continue to be a fan although mostly, Cutter’s works make me want to re-read Stephen King. Whenever I found that happening, some piece of writing or creative incident would set me right back on the path. Micah, Ebenezer, and Minerva are the tough-as-nails sort, killers and bounty hunters with checkered pasts. The setting: an isolated backwoods compound where the work of a cult leader ends up heightening the fear factor of his flock, especially when relating to their children.

The body horror violence just keeps getting worse and worse, and every once in awhile we’d be treated to some actual visuals thanks to an extremely talented illustrator…. They say imitation is flattery, and if that's the case, ol' Stevie has to be wearing a big, walloping grin on his face. Add that in with an ending that felt incredibly existential and nihilistic just for the sake of nihilism, and I closed the book and felt yucky on the inside. However, like you, I would never tell someone not to read it because it seems plenty of people have liked it. Ebenezer Elkins, “The Englishman,” is delightfully cordial, clever as a whip, and unyieldingly deadly.

Another scene has Ebenezer being turned away from going to a movie because he is black; fine, but he was raised in England and I do not think Jim Crow laws existed there in 1960 or so.Outside of “No Country for Old Men” I’m not terribly acquainted with the genre, but if you have three mercenaries hired to check out a small town in the middle of nowhere, with little trust between the three of them, I feel like that just screams Western. Cutter has clearly, to say the least, been influenced by the King of Horror, and Little Heaven borrows liberally from titles like IT and The Gunslinger saga. Placed throughout the book are illustrations by Adam Gorham as well, who helps bring the characters to life and gives face to things you’d rather not see. Cutter did a great job on that front, creating an intense and all-encompassing sense of “wrongness” that never quite leaves you.