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Dwight Johnson is an average man out shopping with his family. But when someone points a gun at his baby's head, dormant instinctive responses emerge that turn this suburban husband and father into a force that is anything but average. Two alternate endings follow Dwight's son into two different futures-one dominated by guns and violence and the other in a more peaceful way of life. Whichever side of the gun debate you find yourself on, this story will leave you with something to think about.

The late summer night is disturbed by a gruesome scene as police are called to investigate the murder of a fellow officer. The man's throat was cut in a confrontation with a killer who was trained by the U.S. military and who "fell off the humanity wagon" while working for the CIA overseas. Don Fredericks becomes the subject of a manhunt in the northern wilderness area of Parson's Valley. U.S. Fish & Wildlife volunteer John DeLoss, is recruited by the somewhat cantankerous, heavy drinking police detective Lars Swenson-to lead the way into the wilderness that John knows so well. As John attempts to help the authorities to find their quarry, he falls in love with a female forest ranger-while also becoming the target of the killer he is chasing. In order to survive, John DeLoss finds that he not only has to face the former Special Forces commando-turned-killer, but he must also face a part of himself that he fears has become like the killer in the process. Eventually John must elude and then confront Fredericks in the wilderness in a showdown that you will not believe. Don Fredericks lost his humanity when he was forced to watch the beheading of his special ops partner years before. Will he regain his humanity in time to save himself and John DeLoss?

This is the story of a Mongol warrior who lived during Jenghiz Khan's empire. It is a new look at a frequently misunderstood culture and history. The participants are not bound by ideals of what is good or bad. Like their ancestor the wolf, they do not act out of cruelty or mercy. They live by a natural law, which has been lost on modern society. To judge them in the midst of our politically correct, industrialized world is like trying to convince a caveman of the merits of having a personal computer. Jenghiz Khan was perhaps the most brilliant uneducated man in history. He was a master of human nature. The men who helped him create his empire, like He-Who-Goes-First, were making their lives from the "raw materials" of the times they lived in. The warrior in this story struggles with his spirituality and his role as a soldier.

Synopsis: The story follows the growth of a cottonwood tree across nearly a century. The story starts just prior to European influence, with a young warrior running from his enemies. This is pre-horse culture and as he stops to catch his breath, a few drops of blood run down his fingers and land on the cottonwood seedling -thus the blood of the warrior is incorporated into the makeup of the tree. As the warrior runs on, the story likewise continues into the future. As the novel covers roughly two centuries, characters will come and go, while demonstrating how life was in this pivotal point in our history. Though the lives of both humans and animals come and go, the tree remains the anchor that keeps pulling the story back together. Eventually, another tree sprouts up and begins its life, as the original begins to die and ultimately succumbs to time. This was necessary to maintain the realism, since cottonwoods generally live around 90 years. As the story moves ever closer to the modern era, the reader is carried along through the many changes that affect both the human inhabitants, as well as the wildlife in and around the area that would later become the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. At one point, ancient bones are dug up during a construction project. While early in the story such a find might be destroyed, the public's ideas and the laws have changed, and the bones must be respected and handled properly. At this point, the story takes the liberty of propelling the reader hundreds of years into the past, in order to put a human element into the bones. The reader witnesses the story of the man's death, through the eyes of his grandson in a world (and even a climate) that is very different from the present. The story ends up with a volunteer park ranger, who spends a lot of time in the bottomland forest. This person gains an appreciation for both the resiliency of the wilderness and also the damage that has been incurred over the decades and centuries. He also gains an appreciation of the history, and how his hikes have taken him to places that were inhabited by those who came before him.