Powell's early work has established him in the southern Appalachian tradition[1] alongside writers such as Pamela Duncan, Silas House and Ron Rash.
[3] Blood Kin received the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel in 2005, awarded annually by the Knoxville Writer's Guild and the University of Tennessee.
The Dark Corner tells the story of the three Walker brothers, troubled men struggling to hold their lives together in the South Carolina mountains.
With its attention to the natural world and exploration of the clash between the old and the new South, The Dark Corner evokes the fiction of James Dickey and Ron Rash.
A U.S. arms deal gone south takes you into the underground world of political operatives, Ivy League criminals and a hedge fund billionaire with eyes on the presidency.