
THE WAYWARD BUS traveled the back roads through lush California countryside.

Ahead of her was a frenzied life of depravity and perversion, wealth.and terror. Behind her were a shattered man and a shattered world, and two infant boys doomed to play out, once again, the tragic roles of another Adam's offspring. Kate came into Adam's life unannounced, and left amidst the ringing echo of gunfire.

The towering figure of Adam Trask dominates the story-a good man whose satanic wife revealed to him the shuddering ecstasies of lustful evil EAST OF EDEN is a monumental novel of grassroots America, sweeping from Connecticut to California, spanning several decades in the passionate lives of two turbulent families.
