The opening chapter takes place after the main action in the book, and sees two bad actors walking away from a fire they’ve set. Their conversation turns to the bodies they’ve left behind, and one is revealed to be that of someone from Slough House. From the start we know someone is going to die, but Herron doesn’t reveal who until the very end but you know what whoever it is, it will leave you upset. I struggle to remember a series of books where I have cared about the characters so much. Herron is superior to the vast majority of thriller writers at their best, and there's no shortage here of reliable treats ranging from messy, inept gunfights to brutally sarcastic dialogue * Sunday Times *

McDonald has four other children, Devin (b. 1976) and Tara (b. 1980) from his marriage to Janice Taylor, and Emily (b. 1988) and Ryan (b. 1991) from his marriage to Kathy Wright. [15] Breznikar, Klemen (February 15, 2015). "Country Joe and the Fish interview with Joe McDonald". It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine. Archived from the original on September 16, 2016 . Retrieved July 15, 2015. Trager, Oliver (1997). The American Book of the Dead . Simon & Schuster Inc. p.249. ISBN 9780684814025. a b Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 42 – The Acid Test: Psychedelics and a sub-culture emerge in San Francisco. [Part 2]" (audio). Pop Chronicles. University of North Texas Libraries.

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a b Perone, James E. (2001). Songs of the Vietnam Conflict . Greenwood Publishing Group. p.40. ISBN 0313315280. a b Collectors Items: The First Three EP's (CD booklet). Country Joe and the Fish. One Way Records. 1994. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) Legendary Artists: Sounds of San Francisco" at an Audio Engineering Society convention in 2012. Left to right: Mario Cipollina, Peter Albin, Joel Selvin, McDonald Herron does not seek to be John le Carre - his is a wryer, more ironic style; faster, more down to earth, with rapid prose that grabs you by the throat. If you haven't read him yet, do so now * Daily Mail *

Red Diaper Babies". AP News. Archived from the original on July 12, 2023 . Retrieved July 12, 2023. Torn, Luke. "Country Joe & The Fish – Electric Music For The Mind And Body". uncut.co.uk . Retrieved July 16, 2015.

Unterberger, Richie. "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die – Review". allmusic.com . Retrieved July 19, 2015. Incidentally, the song "Who Am I" was written by McDonald for a play called Change Over, written by Fred Hayden. Each of the three verses was to be considered as sung by a different character.

a b Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. a b c d Childs, Marti; March, Jeff (2011). Echoes of the Sixties . EditPros LLC. ISBN 9781937317027. The Jewish Standard". Jstandard.com. August 14, 2009. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013 . Retrieved April 19, 2014. a b I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die (CD booklet). Country Joe and the Fish. Ace Vanguard Masters. 2013. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link) In 2015, McDonald (with assistance from Alec Palao), formed The Electric Music Band; the intention of the group was to perform the early psychedelic material of the early career of Country Joe And The Fish. The band has performedReaders' Poll: The 10 Best Protest Songs of All Time". rollingstone.com. 3 December 2014 . Retrieved July 19, 2015. Unterberger, Richie. "Electric Music for the Mind and Body – Review". allmusic.com . Retrieved July 15, 2015. ED Denson, the co-publisher of Rag Baby, introduced McDonald to Chris Strachwitz, who owned Arhoolie Recording Studios, to self-produce the EP. [7] Sensing the band's potential, Denson assumed management control, and was responsible for coining the group's name—a reference to Josef Stalin and to Mao Zedong's description of revolutionaries as "the fish who swim in the sea of the people". [2] McDonald, who had recording experience, began utilizing Arhoolie Recording Studios to record four songs split equally between the band and a local folk musician, Peter Krug. It was during this time at Arhoolie Records that Country Joe and the Fish's folk sound and political protest prowess—an amalgam of their own Guthrie-influenced material and their folk music roots—began to emerge. The band's side of the EP featured two originals by McDonald, an acoustic version of " I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag", and "Superbird". [5] [8] According to McDonald, "The Fish Cheer" was written in 30 minutes, with a purpose of expressing satiric and dark commentary on the US's involvement in the Vietnam War. [9] In October 1965, 100 copies of the EP, titled Rag Baby Talking Issue No. 1, were distributed on McDonald's independent label at a Teach-in in UC Berkeley and underground shops selling Rag Baby magazine. [10] Louisa Guy is one of the slow horses, as the agents are called, at Slough House. Her work is a never-ending drudge made worse by the absence, through his death, of her colleague and lover Min Harper. When Min’s widow gets in touch asking Louisa to help locate her missing teenage son, Lucas, its partly guilt about their affair which gets her to take immediate leave from work and head into Wales searching for him. a b c Palao, Alec (2013). Electric Music for the Mind and Body (CD booklet). Country Joe and the Fish. Ace Vanguard Masters.