Four Corners

Four Corners is a bare-knuckled debut novel about life, love, and violence along four states of the American southwest — both a savage, mean-streets thriller and a heartbreaking story of unfortunate love. For the better part of thirty-seven years, Frank Bruce has hobbled through life, dragging his hunger for amphetamines, alcohol, and crime behind him like a heap of tarnished weight. Now, emboldened by the love of his child-fiancé Maddie Nicole, Frank goes on the run through the drug underworld of the Southwest trying to save a young boy from his meth-riddled father and casino mogul grandfather. Caught in a cat-and-mouse chase but still determined to protect what he loves, Frank seeks help from his onetime mentor, legendary drug kingpin Jon Santer. But in doing so, Frank triggers a vile reckoning with his terrible, violent past."Rudolph means to stress that hard-luck people can be as hard to quit as hard drugs, and the tone the author gives Frank is appealingly flinty and worn...The strength of Frank’s voice compensates for the flaws, though, recalling down-and-out tales like Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling or Daniel Woodrell’s Give Us a Kiss." —Kirkus

..."the plot is rendered in vivid, punch-drunk prose, colored by the cold, jaundiced sunlight of late December in the high desert, a land so imbued with harshness that even its snowflakes prick the flesh." —LA Weekly

“Wally Rudolph's meth-and-cocaine-addled protagonists reel through a nonstop catastrophe of violence, flight, and revenge, too self-destructive to have anything more than a prayer--but they are real. They suffer and love and worship, however crazily. The action is urgent and compelling, the details are as crisp as the light that falls on Santa Fe. Wally knows the territory. And the territory is the human heart.” —Jack Butler, Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock

“Four Corners is a book that will stay with me for a long time, an outstanding first novel by a writer unafraid to scrape the crud off the floor of the human psyche. The best kind of crime fiction.” —Scott Phillips, author of The Ice Harvest and Hop AlleyWALLY RUDOLPH is a multidisciplinary artist and novelist based in Los Angeles. He is the author of the literary novels Four Corners and MIGHTY, MIGHTY (Counterpoint/Soft Skull). His work explores identity, power, memory, and the unseen forces shaping ordinary lives, often moving between realism and the surreal. A former Writer-in-Residence at the Annenberg Beach House in Santa Monica, Rudolph’s artistic practice spans fiction and screen, with guest-starring roles on Sons of Anarchy, Legion, Street Kings, and the award-winning independent film Bang Bang. Born in Canada to Jamaican immigrants and raised in Texas, he now lives in Los Angeles with his son, Redd.