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It is the mid 80s in post industrial America. In a small town graced with the decaying hulks of defunct factories, young journalist and college dropout Bill churns out lengthy essays on the death of industry and of America itself for The Daily Truth, whose scoops rarely rise above the latest home bake contest. The static summer is punctured when local bad boy Ronny Lawton reports his father missing. A dismembered finger is found and all suspect the son of murdering his hated father, but nothing can be proved. The sorry tale of the white trash Lawtons hypnotises the town and Ronny Lawton becomes a local icon. Bill becomes increasingly obsessed with the story - he gets involved with Ronny's estranged wife, finds a decomposing human head, and ends up as a suspect in the murder case himself. Things come to a head and Ronny Lawton holds his wife, child and Bill hostage in a confrontation with the FBI. Bill escapes with the woman and child and contemplates the American dream gone sour.
 
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January 2000 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1861591780Title: The Keepers of Truth
Author(s): Michael Collins
ISBN: 1-86159-178-0 / 9781861591784 (UK edition)
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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May 2001 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0753811022Title: The Keepers Of Truth
Author(s): Michael Collins
ISBN: 0-7538-1102-2 / 978-0-7538-1102-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: Phoenix
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May 2001 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0753812592Title: The Keepers of Truth
Author(s): Michael Collins
ISBN: 0-7538-1259-2 / 978-0-7538-1259-4 (UK edition)
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December 2000 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1861591799Title: The Keepers of Truth
Author(s): Michael Collins
ISBN: 1-86159-179-9 / 9781861591791 (UK edition)
Publisher: Phoenix
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January 2004 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B000FC0QKMTitle: The Keepers of Truth
Author(s): Michael Collins
Publisher: Scribner
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October 2001 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: 0743218035Title: The Keepers of Truth
Author(s): Michael Collins
ISBN: 0-7432-1803-5 / 978-0-7432-1803-0 (USA edition)
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October 2001 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: 0743223616Title: Keepers of Truth
Author(s): Michael Collins
ISBN: 0-7432-2361-6 / 978-0-7432-2361-4 (USA edition)
Publisher: Scribner
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October 2001 : Unknown
Cover of ISBN: 1417720794Title: Keepers of Truth
Author(s): Michael Collins
ISBN: 1-4177-2079-4 / 978-1-4177-2079-8 (USA edition)
Publisher: Topeka Bindery
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