On Sale: Sep 22, 2026
Page Count: 512 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13: 9780316607933

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A family in peril takes to the road in this thrilling and emotional American epic, perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah, Chris Whitaker, and Amor Towles.

“I loved the man and I wanted to kill him. What’s so hard to understand about that?”

On the day she spots her first gray hair, Savannah Cody announces her desire to find and kill Edward “Nickel” Terhune. Once the love of her life—and the father of her only child, Alford—he is now the getaway driver for the notorious Brady Gang, a wanted criminal with an enticing bounty set on his head. With Alford and her father, Wendell, a retired railroad detective, Savannah sets out to journey across an America marked by the Great Depression, from rural farms to posh resorts and north to Maine as summer edges toward fall.

Out in front, Nickel is a man on the run. As the authorities—and Savannah—close in, and as the Brady Gang races for fame and fortune, Nickel desperately seeks a path that will hide his sins and save a future. But the maps don’t show him one quite like that.

For Alford, the journey is a discovery of all the forces that shape his own identity—at times exhilarating, at times painful, but at last revealing his family’s truth.

Die Famous is a dazzling family epic, a sweeping testament to American dreams and heartbreaks, and a novel that showcases why William Kent Krueger has said “Michael Koryta is simply one of today’s finest authors, period.”

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Michael Koryta is a New York Times bestselling author of over twenty novels—including Those Who Wish Me Dead, which has been adapted into a film starring Angelina Jolie and directed by Taylor Sheridan. His previous novels were New York Times notable books, national bestsellers, and have won numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Koryta is a former private investigator and newspaper reporter. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana, and Camden, Maine.

Michael Koryta

About the Author

Michael Koryta is the New York Times bestselling author of 12 suspense novels, including Rise the Dark, Last Words, Those Who Wish Me Dead, The Prophet, The Ridge, and So Cold The River. His work has been praised by Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Dean Koontz, James Patterson, Dennis Lehane, Daniel Woodrell, Ron Rash, and Scott Smith among many others, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. His books have won or been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Edgar® Award, Shamus Award, Barry Award, Quill Award, International Thriller Writers Award, and the Golden Dagger.

Before turning to writing full-time, Koryta worked as a private investigator, a newspaper reporter, and taught at the Indiana University School of Journalism. Koryta’s first novel, the Edgar-nominated Tonight I Said Goodbye, was accepted for publication when he was 20 years old. He wrote his first two published novels before graduating from college, and was published in nearly 10 languages before he fulfilled the “writing requirement ” classes required for his diploma.

Koryta was raised in Bloomington, Indiana, where he graduated from Indiana University with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.

Koryta and his wife, Christine, divide their time between Bloomington and Camden, Maine, with a cranky cat named Marlowe, an emotionally disturbed cat named John Pryor (named after the gravestone on which he was found as an abandoned kitten), and a dog of unknown heritage named Lola.

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