Book description
We're in Fairbanks, Alaska, during the construction of the Trans-Alaska
Pipeline. Alex Price, a Bethel bush pilot, is looking forward to a
pleasant evening, maybe catching up with his old friend and former
prospecting partner Stan, and Stan's lovely Athabascan wife Angie. But
an urgent summons from Stan brings Alex to a local bar and, under his
horrified gaze, to Stan's violent death in the explosion of his vehicle.
No fool, Alex perceives a possible threat to Angie. And he's right:
assassins are moving right behind him. On the run, Alex and Angie share
their grief and their fury, engaging in a deadly game of cat and mouse
with no idea who is trying to kill them, and why. As they move from
Point Barrow to Valdez and back to Fairbanks, striving to avoid any
false step, the two friends confront determined criminals and a life
darkened by tragedy despite the beauty of the majestic landscape
surrounding them. Don Porter, a shrewd and experienced observer,
immerses you in it in this, his first novel. Alaskan charter pilot
Alex Price plans to meet longtime friends Stan and Angie in Fairbanks.
Stan has urgent news for Alex-something about overhearing dangerous talk
at the airport-but their meeting ends abruptly when Stan's vehicle blows
up. Someone tries to kill Alex and Angie, too, but they escape by boat
down the river. Lots of running, pursuing, flying, eating, and drinking
ensue as they try to figure out who's after them and why-perhaps that
shifty guy at the wannabe governor's side? Adventurous action, then, and
a plot with political over-tones aim this first novel at larger
collections. Porter is moving to Arizona in 2006. Don Porter comes to
writing via a fascinating and circuitous route. Educated in Iowa and
Alaska, he has built mountaintop radio and TV repeaters in Alaska,
piloted commercial charter flights with passengers ranging from state
troopers and mothers in labor to dead bodies, grubstaked prospectors,
and rounded up reindeer. Then, trading snow for sunshine, he became a
maintenance engineer in Hawaii. Oh, yes, he's also a Professional
Private Investigator.
