In the Lake of the Woods

A remarkable novel from the National Book Award-winning author of Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried, which combines the power of the finest Vietnam fiction with the tension of a many-layered mystery.

In a remote lakeside cabin deep in the Minnesota forests, Kathy Wade is comforting her husband John, an ambitious politician, after a devastating electoral defeat.

Then one night she vanishes, and gradually the search for Kathy becomes a voyage into the darkest corners of John Wade’s life, a life of deception and deceit—the life of a man able to escape everything but the chains of his darkest secret.