In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the boy and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER - Irving's twelfth novel - is written with the historical authenticity and emotional authority of THE CIDER HOUSE RULES but is as disturbing a story as his breakthrough bestseller, THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP.