Reflections In Gold - Softcover

Nordstrom, Eugene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 059552513X ISBN 13: 9780595525133

Publisher: iUniverse, 2009

Synopsis

Profit-driven developers want to clear-cut, bulldoze, and bury Lake County's pristine wilderness under the infamous monument to progress known as Reflection Lake Resort.

Bob Elliott, investigative reporter for The Lake County Herald, is on a dangerous mission to expose the sinister connection between Reflection Lake's land developers and the corrupt county political machine.

Battle lines have been drawn and the bitter war between environmentalists and developers turns ugly.

Only time will tell if an honest man, brought to his knees by murder and blackmail, will survive.

What some Reflections In Gold characters say about Bob Elliott:

 

"Bob isn't a perfect man. He has his human frailties just like all the rest of us. But, no one else around here could ever fill his shoes."

Burt Parrish

 Editor

The Lake County Herald

"Bob Elliott is an optimist. I think optimists have an advantage over dreamers. With all that confidence in success, they seem to actually make things happen."

Stacey Winthrop

The love of Bob's life

"He's the worst kind of obstructionist. If we're ever going to move Lake County into the present century, Bob Elliott needs to be run out of town!"

Tony Avalon

 President

Cascade Paradise Land Development

About this title

About the Author

After graduating from Whitman College, Eugene Nordstrom earned three graduate degrees including a doctorate from the University of Southern California. He served thirty years as a clinical psychotherapist with Kaiser Permanente, Northwest Region, before writing his first two novels, The Honeymoon Car and The Road To Glory Land.
Background for Reflections In Gold was obtained on location in the North Cascades and Canada's Yukon Territory.
A life-long native of the Pacific Northwest, he and his wife, Barbara, have homes in Washington State and on the Oregon coast.

From the Back Cover

Sitting on the edge of the old boat dock, Bob dangled his bare feet in the cool water. As he watched two dragonflies flitting over a lily pad he tried to sort out the unsettling feelings of a man who longed for something beyond wealth and power. Tomorrow he would go to Olympia to make a dream come true. Why, then, had this gnawing feeling of emptiness overtaken such a full life?
He tried to sort it out. His friends on North Main were feeling the emptiness of material loss. He understood that and empathized with them. But his emptiness had welled up from an existential void. And, unlike the lake's vibrant wilderness, this very private abyss of his had always been a dark place that yearned for sunlight.
Head bowed, deep in thought, Bob did not hear the soft footsteps behind him. But, in the looking glass water beneath him, an image of long-lost dreams suddenly appeared. Expressive blue eyes, a beckoning smile, flowing blond locks--an ethereal watercolor portrait shimmering amidst water irises and cattail reeds--reflections in gold.

From the Inside Flap

Profit-driven developers want to clear-cut, bulldoze, and bury Lake County's pristine wilderness under the infamous "monument to progress" known as Reflection Lake Resort.
Bob Elliott, investigative reporter for The Lake County Herald, is on a dangerous mission to expose the sinister connection between Reflection Lake's land developers and the corrupt county political machine.
Battle lines have been drawn and the bitter war between environmentalists and developers turns ugly.
Only time will tell if an honest man, brought to his knees by murder and blackmail, will survive.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 059552513X
• ISBN 13: 9780595525133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216