Thunder Horse: A Montana Mystery Featuring Gabriel Du Pre - Softcover

Bowen, Peter

4.13

521 ratings by Goodreads

9780312317713: Thunder Horse: A Montana Mystery Featuring Gabriel Du Pre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312317719 ISBN 13: 9780312317713

Publisher: Minotaur Books, 2003

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Toussaint, Montana isn't easily rattled, but an earthquake uncovers an ancient burial ground and the well-preserved bones of a primitive people. When an archeologist is found with a bullet in his back and a dinosaur tooth in his pocket, sometime sleuth Gabriel Du Pr� steps in with the wisdom and vision of his M�tis ancestors to uncover the answers. But while Indians, archeologists, and entrepreneurs battle for valuable land and the precious remains of a dinosaur, a predator more dangerous than the great T. Rex walks the Montana plains, hungry to strike again...

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Review:

Fans of Peter Bowen's gloriously unbridled books about Montana's Gabriel Du Pre have cause to celebrate with Thunder Horse. The part-Medis Indian cattle-brand inspector and occasional deputy sheriff gets involved in a story of murder and greed that links the ancient Indian residents of Montana (and an even older inhabitant, Tyrannosaurus Rex--the titular "thunder horse") with a present-day Japanese consortium's plans to turn a bucolic spring into a commercial trout farm. Along the way, Du Pre drives his old pickup too fast along Montana's back roads, drinks gallons of cheap wine with a brace of fascinating friends, plays his fiddle, and resonates with originality and energy. Past Du Pre tales in paperback include Notches, Specimen Song, and Wolf, No Wolf.

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Praise for Thunder Horse:

"Strange, seductive...guaranteed to draw you to the campfire." --The New York Times Book Review

"The growing crowds of fans of Peter Bowen's gloriously unbridled books about Montana's Gabriel Du Pre have new cause to celebrate...Du Pre...resonate[s] with originality and energy." --Chicago Tribune

"The Gabe Du Pre books stand alone among other crime series set in the West--a unique and completely involving reading experience...A special book in a special series." -Booklist (starred review)

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