Ronald A. (rarendt) reviewed on 12/18/2012 + 107 more book reviews

David Poyer is one of my favorite authors. I have read nearly everything he has written up through the first ten novels of his wonderful Dan Lenson series; I have several here still to read, but I parcel them out, only reading one or two a year to make the pleasure last as long as possible. This is one of Poyer's earlier efforts, and I think this was the book where he really bacame the wonderful novelist that he is today.

This is the third novel of his Hemlock County trilogy, and takes place in a fictional county in north central Pennsylvania, a county with no large cities and plenty of wilderness area, where much of the action takes place - in the winter, as you would suspect (the other two books are "The Dead of Winter" and "Winter in the Heart"). There is a lot of very good outdoor writing and a "man against the wilderness" survival theme plus some murder and violence, several despicable villians, and a few corporate boardroom shenanigans. I won't say any more because I don't want to spoil it for you.

This is a five-star book, like almost all of the Dan Lenson novels.

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