A witty noir Don Quixote...a blackly comic fable about emptiness, loneliness and the hollow allure of gold - Financial Times It is 1851,for gold has swept the American frontier. Two brother - the notorious Eli and Charlie Sisters - are on the road to California, following the trail of an elusive prospector, Hermann Kermit Warm. On this odyssey Eli and his brother cross paths with a remarkable cast of characters - losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of - and Eli begins to question what he does for a living, and whom he does it for. Unforgettable - Sunday Telegraph A vision of searing originality - Sunday Times Gripping and heart-warming - Guardian A boldly eloquent adventure and novel about a man trying to live a better life - Metro