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The Lion Hunter (Paperback)
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Lanny Klegg goes by the book. He's a straight-laced law enforcement
officer for Arizona's Game and Fish Department, and his job is to
track down a bounty hunter who is illegally killing mountain lions
for renegade ranchers. Silas Garner is a cowboy born 100 years too
late, and he's so methodical and arrogant as a hunter and houndsman
that he will be easy to catch in the act of killing the big cats.
But Lanny's got his conflicts: He was raised in a ranching family
and he understands why ranchers want the lions dead. He's haunted
by the ghost of his cousin and best friend and driven by his
cousin's lover, an overzealous environmental attorney who wants
Garner's killing to stop. And he's distractedly in love with a
beautiful wildland firefighter named Frida, who's got ghosts of her
own. His biggest conflict, though, is that he owes his life to
Garner, who once pulled him and Frida out of a freak wildfire
inferno. But he's got his job and his principles, even if sticking
to them may cost him the love of his life. And as both men track
their prey, the game warden and the lion hunter discover that they
have equally compelling moral codes, and they struggle to hold on
to them through an emotional chase across Arizona's wildest
country, into the courtroom and back out onto the landscape they
love. The Lion Hunter is based on real-life environmental cases and
issues of Arizona in the 1990s. *** Michael Kiefer's third book is
a novel of cold beauty, a tale of men consumed by hungers and
obsessions they can neither understand nor resist. In prose as
elegantly haunting as the image of the animal of the title, the
Lion Hunter takes the reader on a journey into the American
absolute, a place of pure passion and need. --Barry Graham, author
of The Book of Man and The Wrong Thing *** The ground of Arizona
asks hard questions and swats away easy answers. Michael Kiefer's
The Lion Hunter takes you to the places where the cities fade away
and the lions and the men who kill lions hold their teach-ins. It
is about a dying breed of men chasing the ghost of themselves
inside the whispered freedom of the lions. You'll envy both breeds
no matter what your politics. --Charles Bowden, author of Murder
City, Down by the River and Blues for Cannibals
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Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2012 |
First published: |
February 2012 |
Authors: |
Michael Kiefer
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
284 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4700-3155-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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LSN: |
1-4700-3155-8 |
Barcode: |
9781470031558 |
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