The Killing of the Tinkers Scott Dawson the Fort Peck Dam

the Fort Peck Dam

--Utne Reader

and in awe of one family's survival

From Working in the Cotton Fields to Working in His Kingdom is the true story of how a boy raised in the Mississippi Delta became a Southern Baptist minister for nearly seventy years

The Killing of the Tinkers Scott Dawson the Fort Peck DamWhen Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers, Jack's back in Galway a year later with a new leather jacket on his back, a pack of smokes in his pocket, a few grams of coke in his waistband, and a pint of Guinness on his mind. So much for new beginnings. Before long he's sunk into his old