There has never been a character quite like Romulus Ledbetter, the unlikely hero of George Dawes Green's acclaimed debut novel, The Caveman's Valentine. Once a devoted family man and a Julliard-trained musician with a brilliant future, Rom now makes his home in a cave in New York City's Inwood Park, spending his days foraging for food and waging a one-man war against Cornelius Gould Stuyvesant, the evil (and imaginary) powerbroker responsible for every one of society's ills. Then, one wintry night, Rom finds a corpse at the mouth of his cave. Propelled by his well-defined sense of ethics, he sets off on an obsessive quest for answers, following a spiraling web of clues and hunches, straight into the sinister den of temptation, money, and murder . . . a place otherwise known as the civilized world (authors).
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