When Captain Flint Was Still a Good Man - Softcover

Dybek brings serious talent to bear... [The novel] finishes on a powerful note of moral murkiness... Evocative. (New York Times )

Finely crafted . . . a taut novel juggling the sometimes conflicting impulses to do the moral thing, and to protect those we love (Los Angeles Times )

Dybek has a gift for the atmospheric. (The New Yorker )

An engrossing and exacting moral thriller. (Peter Ho Davies, Author Of The Welsh Girl )

A thrilling yarn, delivered as if by a scarred man by the consoling light of a fire. (The Economist )

An authentic, atmospheric, coming-of-age story with a painful dilemma . . . A terrific debut. (C. J. Box )

[An] engrossing, often haunting thriller. (Washington Independent Review of Books )

Dybek has created a superbly orchestrated and soulful drama of loyalty to family and an imperiled way of life and the fathomless forces that make a good man go bad. (Booklist )

A book to watch. (O: The Oprah Magazine )

Complex and suspenseful . . . A genuine tragedy-powerful, mythic, unforgettable. (Jaimy Gordon, Author Of Lord Of Misrule )

This is a book about transitions, and revelations, and the thin line between acting out of fear, and out of out of a sense of morality . . . Dybek is a clean and stripped-down stylist, striking a delicate balance between ambiguity and life-changing clarity. (Los Angeles Times ) --Los Angeles Times

A community at risk, a family in turmoil, and a young boy becoming a man... A death on Loyalty Island leads a 14-year-old boy to be swept up in a storm of lies and deceit that makes him question his family - and the limits of his own morality. A thrilling American debut.