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The Blood Knot.


The Blood Knot Noun 1. blood knot - a knot used for tying fishing leaders together; the ends of the two leaders are wrapped around each other two or three times
barrel knot
 

John Galligan

Bleak House Books

953 East Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53703

1932557121 $23.95 www.bleakhousebooks.com

The Blood Knot by John Galligan is the engagingly entertaining story of a young, devoted fly fisherman named 'The Dog', and his survival in the Wisconsin town of Avalanche. As the Dog's exploratory quest for the greatest fly fishing brings him to the spiteful people of Kussmaul County and a the biting of a beaver thought to be rabid, The Blood Knot tactfully tact·ful  
adj.
Possessing or exhibiting tact; considerate and discreet: a tactful person; a tactful remark.



tact
 and vividly carries readers through page-after-page of an evermore ev·er·more  
adv.
1. Forever; always.

2. In a future time.


evermore
Adverb

all time to come

Adv. 1.
 gripping and intriguing mystery novel as the Dog finds yet another dead body, and even more peculiar, an outcast Amish woman high on crystal-meth. A superbly crafted mystery, The Blood Knot is very highly recommended reading as a man who's only intentions are peacefully fly fishing in country finds himself enveloped en·vel·op  
tr.v. en·vel·oped, en·vel·op·ing, en·vel·ops
1. To enclose or encase completely with or as if with a covering: "Accompanying the darkness, a stillness envelops the city" 
 in peculiar happenings and a genuine "who done it" conundrum.
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Date:Jun 1, 2006
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