Thirteen-year-old John C. McCoy slips into the cold water of the
Tug Fork River and swims through the darkness to the West Virginia
shore and his future. It is 1909, and in a dozen years, he and his
wife, Hiley, and two daughters struggle to survive, and the couple
joins the fight for food, shelter, and safety in the coal fields.
In 1979, shortly after John C. dies, his grandson, an Army colonel,
seeks the story of the mine wars, denied to him in public
education, and the role of his grandfather in those wars, a story
denied to him by his family. He discovers violence, Matewan and
Baldwin Felts detectives, Police Chief Sid Hatfield, the Battle of
Blair Mountain, and a dark struggle of spies, distrust, and
betrayal. And as the larger mystery for him unfolds, he fears the
nature of his grandfather's actions in that war, doubts that he
should be searching, and asks himself, what will he find, and to
whom will he tell what he has found. What was his grandpa's role,
and will it write a story of pride or shame?
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