Jack Pine - Hardcover

Hazelgrove, William

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ISBN 10: 163393084X ISBN 13: 9781633930841

Publisher: Koehler Books, 2015

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When the sixteen year old daughter of a prominent attorney is raped in a woodshed and a logger found shot the next morning, Deputy Sheriff Reuger London becomes embroiled in a war between environmentalists, the Ojibwa Indians fighting for their timber rights, and the ruthless son of a powerful logger. Ben Johnson is the biggest logger in the Northwoods and his son Cliff will soon take over the business. Logging is dying a slow death from environmental restrictions and all that’s left are the scrub firs and jackpine. But far up in the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota are trees called the Old Pines. These three hundred year Norwegian pines are priceless and Johnson Timber wants them. A radical leader of Earth First, Tom Jorde, will do anything to stop the logging in the Boundary Waters. Then another logger is murdered and Jorde is implicated. The town pressures Reuger to stop the environmentalist and arrest an Indian, Tommy Toboken, for the rape of the girl. Tommy had saved his life once before and Reuger knows he is being setup. When he falls in love with the lawyer brought to town to defend Tom Jorde and realizes Johnson Timber is going to log out the Federally protected trees, Reuger is torn between old loyalties and what is right. (William Hazelgrove)

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From the Author:

This the first in the Reuger London series set in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota. TIMBER WOLF will be out within the year. I spent ten years going to the Boundary Waters and getting to know the people and the land and the issues that are important to that part of the country. I also had the opportunity to ride around with a Deputy Sherriff and spend time at an old logging camp that ultimately gave me the idea for Jack Pine. If you like a good mystery set in a spectacular setting that conjures up the way the country was before it was logged out, then Jack Pine is your book.

About the Author:

William Hazelgrove is the best-selling author of six novels: Ripples, Mica Highways, Rocket Man, Tobacco Sticks, The Pitcher, and his latest, Real Santa. His books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Book of the Month Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards Junior Library Guild Selections, Booklist Editors Choice Awards, and optioned for the movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. He has written articles and reviews for USA Today and other publications and has been featured on NPR All Things Considered. The New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today have all covered his books with features. He runs a political cultural blog, The View From Hemingway’s Attic. He lives in Chicago. (William Hazelgrove)

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