# The Clearing

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- Book: [The Clearing](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-gautreaux/the-clearing) ([The Clearing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-gautreaux/the-clearing.md))
- Authors: [Tim Gautreaux](https://www.bookquiver.com/tim-gautreaux)
- Publisher: sceptre
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4471-458-6
- Published: 2010-09-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Byron Aldridge, heir to a timber empire, returns from the First World War a changed man and finds refuge as a company policeman in a backwoods Louisiana sawmill. Soon his younger brother Randolph tracks him down, assuming charge of the mill in the hope of