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From the bestselling author of The Women comes an action-packed adventure
about endangered animals and those who protect them.

Principally set on the wild and sparsely inhabited Channel Islands off the
coast of Santa Barbara, T. C. Boyle's powerful new novel combines pulse-
pounding adventure with a socially conscious, richly humane tale regarding
the dominion we attempt to exert, for better or worse, over the natural
world. Alma Boyd Takesue is a National Park Service biologist who is
spearheading the efforts to save the island's endangered native creatures
from invasive species like rats and feral pigs, which, in her view, must
be eliminated. Her antagonist, Dave LaJoy, is a dreadlocked local businessman
who, along with his lover, the folksinger Anise Reed, is fiercely opposed
to the killing of any species whatsoever and will go to any lengths to subvert
the plans of Alma and her colleagues.

Their confrontation plays out in a series of escalating scenes in which these
characters violently confront one another, and tempt the awesome destructive
power of nature itself. Boyle deepens his story by going back in time to
relate the harrowing tale of Alma's grandmother Beverly, who was the sole
survivor of a 1946 shipwreck in the channel, as well as the tragic story of
Anise's mother, Rita, who in the late 1970s lived and worked on a sheep ranch
on Santa Cruz Island. In dramatizing this collision between protectors of the
environment and animal rights' activists, Boyle is, in his characteristic
fashion, examining one of the essential questions of our time: Who has the
right of possession of the land, the waters, the very lives of all the
creatures who share this planet with us? When the Killing's Done will offer
no transparent answers, but like The Tortilla Curtain, Boyle's classic take
on illegal immigration, it will touch you deeply and put you in a position
to decide.

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