In this edgy and dramatic adventure story, modern-day wildlands
firefighters and cattle rustlers struggle for both physical and
emotional survival in a changing Western landscape. Braiding the
stories of firefighters Morgan and Jeremy and a grandmother
laundromat custodian-turned cattle rustler, Jacklynn, This Here is
Devil's Work is a fiery ride through small towns of Nevada and
Montana and the rugged expanse that connects them. With twelve
years on the fireline, Morgan, a wildland firefighter with a
wandering eye, believes he knows what his teenage half-brother,
Jeremy, needs to do to shrug off boyhood: spend a single fire
season punching line to earn money for auto mechanic school. But
when Jeremy joins the Ruby Mountain Hotshots and earns the respect
and admiration of their fire boss, Bailey, an unresolved animosity
toward his kid brother threatens to destroy everything. Life hasn't
been easy on Jacklynn. She's got her heart set on finding a way to
move from the small town in Montana where she's lived her whole
life to reunite with her daughter and grandson in Tucson. She wants
to make up for a lifetime of missteps by protecting the boy and
making sure her daughter stays on the straight and narrow. On the
same day that a stranger, Lenny, waltzes into her life and ignites
that old feeling, an opportunity for life-changing money presents
itself in the form of a dozen pregnant heifers. The only trouble
is, they aren't hers-not yet, anyway. Morgan and Jacklynn's paths
cross when lightning ignites a blaze in the untamed Montana forest
and their choices force each other into the crucible. Inspired by
the wildfires raging across the West and the legendary smokejumpers
whose legacy continues to shape the ways wildland fires are fought,
'This Here is Devil's Work' explores how love and loneliness and
can sour, inspiring desperate and self-destructive acts. Curtis
Vickers pulls no punches in showing us how guilt, isolation, and
desperation really feel-and how such emotions can drive the actions
of all of us, even people we might, from a distance, consider
heroic. An incendiary debut, this novel will appeal to readers in a
New West literary movement-less dependent on protagonists who are
either noble or praiseworthy, or noble but conflicted.
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