"Not a Bad Man is a novel that will keep

you up nights, a novel by a young writer who

cares about language. It will make your head

and heart sing. Long after you read the last

page, the whole bitter, beautiful, sweet, ugly

story of death and the absence of love will

live in your memory."

So writes Harry Crews about John Miglis

stunning, brilliant story of four North Florida

men in search of the mystery and beauty of

the great bald eagle and the tragedy that

befalls them and the unforgettable exotic

dancer three of them love.

At first the men, who call themselves the

Group, have little in common except their

fascination with the eagle s majesty. One of

them is an English professor, another a trou-

bled young drifter, the third an old Florida woodsman, and the last an ambitious, driven

lawyer running for the state legislature. A

pyramiding burden of sudden death, betrayal

and terror inextricably binds these men and

the dancer in a web of retribution and forces

each of them to relive his past in the after-

math of a bizarre and tragic accident.

As compelling as Deliverance by James

Dickey, Not a Bad Man is. in the words of

Malcolm Braly, "a novel of unusual power."