After a tense conversation these men attack Ed and Bobby. As they are waiting, two men, one of them carrying a shotgun, step out of the woods. Sometime that afternoon, Bobby and Ed pull the canoe over to take a break and let Lewis and Drew catch up after a small separation.
He is frustrated by Lewis' leadership, so Ed takes him as a canoe partner to keep the two apart. Since the night in camp, Bobby has changed his mind about the trip. After breaking camp, Ed and Bobby set out in one canoe slightly ahead of Lewis and Drew. Lewis is unimpressed, and Ed gets annoyed at his survivalist mentality. Sighting a deer, he shoots but misses because he loses his nerve at the last moment. The following morning, Ed awakes early and goes hunting with his bow and arrow. After they shoot some initial rapids and evening approaches, Ed reflects on the isolation into which the group has now voyaged.
The visitors put their canoes in the river and begin their journey. The men arrange with local mechanics, the Griner brothers, to drive the foursome's cars to the fictitious town of Aintry, where the canoe voyage is scheduled to end two days later. He gets out his own guitar and plays a duet with the boy, who appears to be intellectually disabled, maybe inbred, but with great musical skills. At a gas station in a mountain hamlet, Drew sees a local albino boy playing a banjo. The men drive into the mountains with two canoes. Besides Ed, the protagonists are insurance salesman Bobby Trippe, soft drink executive Drew Ballinger, and landlord Lewis Medlock, a physically fit outdoorsman who has promoted the canoe trip.
It's a last chance to travel on this wild river, which is scheduled to be dammed to create a reservoir and generate hydropower. Narrated in the first person by Ed Gentry, a graphic artist and one of the four main characters, the novel opens with him and three friends, all middle-aged men who live in a large city in Georgia, planning a weekend canoe trip down the fictional Cahulawassee River in the northwest Georgia wilderness. In 2005, the novel was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. In 1998, the editors of the Modern Library selected Deliverance as #42 on their list of the 100 best 20th-Century novels. It was adapted into the 1972 film of the same name directed by John Boorman. Deliverance (1970) is the debut novel of American writer James Dickey, who had previously published poetry.
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