title: Dead Low Tide: A Novel
author:  Bret Lott 
description: <b>Advance praise for <i>Dead Low Tide</i></b><br /> <br />[A] critique of class distinctions and outmoded laws [with a] particular noirish kick."<i>--<b>The New York Times Book Review</b></i><br /><br /> The best book Bret Lott has ever writtenby far. He creates a Charleston that has never been written about in the history of that remarkable city. It is a literary thriller of the highest orderlike something John Le Carr would write. I couldnt put it down.<b>Pat Conroy, author of <i>South of Broad</i></b><br /> <br /> <i>Dead Low Tide</i> should be retitled <i>High Water Mark</i>. Bret Lott is a combination of James Lee Burke and Elmore Leonard but with the grace and poise of Pat Conroy. Not a word is out of place. Reading this book is like listening to good musicas you reach the end, you want to start all over again. <i>Dead Low Tide</i> has made me a Bret Lott lifer. Im going back and reading everything hes written, and Ill be first in line when the next comes out.<b>Ridley Pearson, author of <i>In Harms Way</i></b><br /> <br /> Bret Lott has done it again: linked a small family drama to a matter of national importance. Though he tells his tale, as always, with a lyric sweetness, terrorboth private and publicis the subject here.<b>Nicholas Delbanco, author of <i>Lastingness: The Art of Old Age</i></b><br /><br />"This literary thriller of the first order grippingly deals with current events while revealing the secrets, ambitions, loves, and fears of a family that readers grow to cherish."<i><b>--Library Journal</b></i><br /> <b></b><br /> <b>Praise for Bret Lotts <i>The Hunt Club</i></b><br /> <b><i></i></b><br /> I turned the pages so insistently that, had there been pictures on the pages instead of print, it would have made a movie. Its that suspenseful.Wally Lamb<br /> <br /> A nerve-jangling thriller.<i>Boston Sunday Globe</i>
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  # Life at High Tide
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  There is a tide in the affairs of men
  
  
    
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  upon great events, has found in the high-tide flotations of masterf