"...grab yourself a drink, a stiff one, make it a double, settle into your easy chair, open The Boys, and begin. You’re home for the evening. And I promise you this, Lucas and Lowell will haunt your dreams." ~John Dufresne, author of I Don’t Like Where This Is Going Darling Jean Bramlett has been accepted into the college of her dreams. In the first thrilling days of her freshman year, she works hard in her classes and dreams of becoming a famous poet and a scholar. Then she meets two upperclassmen, Lucas and Lowell. Brilliant, handsome, confident, they seem to be everything she wants to be. They pull her into their orbit, and with them she embarks on a series of increasingly bizarre and violent adventures, ultimately resulting in murder.

Culp is the new counselor in the stockade, trying to find his way. Woods is the psychotic, murderous guard, mercilessly torturing the prisoners. Jessie is the richest man in the U.S. Army, buying his way out of everything. And Stuart is the platoon sergeant holding it all together. Into this strange mix comes Lee, the Viet Nam deserter turned terrorist, hiding from a Red Army purge. When Woods decides to murder Lee, and Culp sets out to stop him, Twilight of the Lesser Gods spins inexorably toward its deadly and terrifying conclusion.