Old King

A Novel

By: Maxim Loskutoff

Narrated by: Gregory Connors

In this haunting novel about the end of the frontier dream, a man tries to reinvent himself in one of America’s last wild territories, while his neighbor begins a crime spree that will tremble the nation.

In the summer of 1976, Duane Oshun finds himself stranded in a remote Montana town beset by a series of strange and menacing events. He takes a job as a logger and builds a cabin on an isolated road near a reclusive neighbor—a hermit named Ted Kaczynski.

The two men are captivated by the valley’s endangered old-growth forest, but Kaczynski’s violent grievances against modern society soon threaten the lives of all those around him. As Kaczynski’s bombs crescendo to the book’s devastating conclusion, Old King wrestles with the birth of the modern environmental movement, the accelerating dominion of technology in American life, and a new kind of violence that lives next door.

Told in four parts sweeping across two decades, Old King establishes Maxim Loskutoff as one of the most thrilling and inventive authors of the American West, a writer “endowed with fearless audacity, stunning grace, and gutsy heart” (Nickolas Butler).

©2024 Maxim Loskutoff (P)2024 Audible, Inc.

A beautifully written novel by a writer who grew up in Montana. Beaitifully narrated.

I discovered this novel after reading a New York Times op ed piece but the author describing the romanticization of Ted Kaczinsky. A superb and hauntingly sad story.

Engaging well told story

I really enjoyed Old King! An engaging story with well developed characters, detailed and well written.

Great story, wonderfully told

Excellent story behind the story of the Unibomber and his Montana neighbors. Nicely developed characters.

Didn't know if I would like it

Interesting side story around an area I know well. Author did a good job of interweaving lives of people in a small mountain town, who are not aware of the danger in their midst.

Boring

Too many insignificant details in the story. Story takes too long to get the Ted Kaczynski.