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I loved the inside look at what park rangers are up against in performing their jobs, protecting the parks and the animals therein as well as people/tourists who endanger themselves and the enviornment by their misguided and dangerous behavior.
The best-selling author of The River returns with a vibrant, lyrical novel about an enforcement ranger in Yellowstone National Park who likes wolves better than most people. When a clandestine range war threatens his closest friend, he must shake off his own losses and act swiftly to discover the truth and stay alive.
“A good story that’s intertwined like leaves afloat in a river with the current of Heller’s descriptive powers… Filled with Heller’s lush writing… Powerful.” –Denver Post
Officer Ren Hopper is an enforcement ranger with the National Park Service, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: Breaking up…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Jeffrey Lent's prose is spectacular, taking a little-known piece of New England history and turning it into a dark, atmospheric novel. His world building is outstanding, transporting you to a frontier New Hampshire outpost in the early 19th century, where you can feel the wind, hear the birds, smell the mud. I'm currently writing a thriller about the logging camps of Maine in the 1850s, and my aim has always been to make it into a great Eastern - a novel as redolent of the woodlands of the east as Cormac McCarthy's work is of the west. Jeffrey Lent has beaten me to it. One of the best books I've read in years.
Lost Nation delves beneath the bright, promising veneer of early-nineteenth-century New England to unveil a startling parable of individualism and nationhood. The novel opens with a man known as Blood, guiding an oxcart of rum toward the wild country of New Hampshire, an ungoverned territory called the Indian Stream -- a land where the luckless or outlawed have made a fresh start. Blood is a man of contradictions, of learning and wisdom, but also a man with a secret past that has scorched his soul. He sets forth to establish himself as a trader, hauling with him Sally, a sixteen-year-old…
