In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakenly kills the local constable's girlfriend. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, John Irving's twelfth novel is told in Irving's unmistakable voice – the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller – Last Night in Twisted River is written with historical authenticity and emotional authority.