The Sorrow Hand (The Nick Drake Mysteries)

ISBN: 0999146858

Author: Holing, Dwight

Condition: New

For Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake, the war at home proves just as deadly.Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a boxful of medals and enough demons to fill a duffle bag. He's been trained to kill, but never retrained to rejoin society. Nick flees to the high lonesome in search of redemption and takes a job patrolling wildlife refuges where the only conflicts are keeping out stray cows and ticketing poachers. But then he stumbles across a girl's body ritually placed in a gully. Her murder is only the beginning, and Nick must face humanity's heart of darkness once again if he's to stop a killer from turning even more gullies into graves.What readers are saying:????? Nick Drake is wonderfully complex. His backstory is beautifully (and horrifically) described.????? The old lawman, Pudge Warbler, is as flinty and resolute as his pitiless territory.????? I absolutely loved the Native American character, her language and myths.????? Got it on Friday and finished it on Saturday.????? Smart, thrilling, and action-packed.????? The prose crackles like the high desert setting.????? The descriptions of the natural surroundings put me right there.