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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…
Arizona Territory, 1871. Valeria Obregón and her ambitious husband, Raúl, arrive in the raw frontier town of Tucson hoping to find prosperity. Changing Woman, an Apache spirit who represents the natural order of the world and its cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, welcomes Nest Feather, a twelve-year-old Apache girl,…
Probably best known as one of the creators of Netflix's Outer Banks, Shannon Burke is also a novelist. On a first-responder novel binge, I discovered his book Safe Light, which draws from his previous career as an NYC paramedic. While I enjoyed it, it didn't prepare me for the greatness of Into the Savage Country. Following an inexperienced, headstrong fur trapper into the daunting, wild, barely explored territory west of the Mississippi in the 1820s, it brought to mind one of my favorite books of all time, A.B. Guthrie's The Big Sky. Into the Savage Country is another that sits high on my list of the best titles of recent years.
It’s the early nineteenth century, and the American West is still wild and untamed. Young William Wyeth is ready to throw caution to the wind and join a fur-trapping outfit, even though it means braving wild animals, sudden blizzards, and conflicts with hostile British trappers.
Still, nothing can compare to the elation William feels when he meets and falls in love with Alene, a proud widow who insists she will not wait more than a year. As William sets off on one last mission with a group of grizzled eccentrics and an enigmatic, hotheaded leader, it soon becomes clear that…
