This is a weird, unsavory, nasty horror novel from the late 1970s. It takes place in a small town in Alabama in the mid 1960s. The town is home to a munitions plants turned rifle factory, that supplies jobs for most of the citizens and rifles for the local army base, getting newly drafted soldiers ready to go to Vietnam. During a rifle practice session, a local boy is using one of those rifles when it misfires, explodes and horrifically injured him, destroying his face […]