The Horseman's Tale

A hypnotic narrative that twists through both light and dark as

journaling therapy unlocks the troubled memories of a lonely veteran.

Haunted by the death of his son in

infancy and the love of his life many years later, Jake Montgomery grudgingly

agrees to a form of “journal therapy” that allows him to expose and confront

the sharp, insistent pain that he regularly buries with rage and scotch and

television. As he writes, secrets tightly bound within him gradually

unwind—first in racially segregated Ocala, Florida, in the 1950s, where his

best childhood friend was a Puerto Rican jockey, then in Ireland, when a summer

as a stable apprentice ushers in a new and all-consuming passion.

Jake relives his experiments with

free love in the 1960s, and is embroiled once more in choices of life and death

on the battlefields of Vietnam, and later, as undercover intelligence officer

in the countries of Eastern Europe. What begins as a journey chronicling

youthful discovery spirals swiftly into spaces where loss overwhelms and the

path chosen is one of ruthlessness and revenge. It is the birth, life, and

death of a special horse that gives Jake a sense of purpose in his desperate

search for a reason to carry on.