Claws - Softcover

Cochran, Stacey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440495343 ISBN 13: 9781440495342

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2009

Synopsis

Something stalks the citizens of Arizona... Dr. Angie Rippard is an Arizona wildlife biologist who is drawn into a police investigation when two teenagers are found dead on a golf course that borders protected National Forest Land. Rippard suspects the teens were attacked by a large mountain lion. Backed into a corner, it knows no fear... Rippard believes that the resort was developed too close to wilderness lands, but her plan to relocate cougars in the area provokes the wrath of the resort's owner-Charlie Rutledge-who believes the animals should be exterminated. Eight million years have shaped its predatory skill... Deep inside the Tonto National Forest, Rippard and her grad students realize that Charlie Rutledge is hunting them. In a thrilling climax, Rippard must make a choice to kill the cougar that is certain to kill Charlie Rutledge, or kill Rutledge who is certain to kill her. Now we are the endangered species.

About this title

About the Author

Stacey Cochran is the author of CLAWS, The Loneliest, and The Colorado Sequence. In 1998 he was selected as a finalist for the Dell Magazines Award for undergraduate fiction writing, and he made his first professional short story sale three years later. In 2004, he was selected as a finalist in the St. Martin's Press/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Contest, and he began teaching at North Carolina State University in 2006. An excerpt from his current novel-in-progress Portrait of an American Love Story was selected as a finalist for the James Hurst Prize for Fiction by PEN/Faulkner Finalist Ron Rash in November 2011. Stacey was born in the Carolinas where his family traces its roots to the 1700s. He lives in Raleigh with his wife Susan, son Sam, and daughter Harper Jane. 

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440495343
• ISBN 13: 9781440495342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228