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Jack Pine, by William Hazelgrove
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When the sixteen year old daughter of a prominent attorney is raped in a woodshed and a logger found shot the next morning, Deputy Sheriff Reuger London becomes embroiled in a war between environmentalists, the Ojibwa Indians fighting for their timber rights, and the ruthless son of a powerful logger. Ben Johnson is the biggest logger in the Northwoods and his son Cliff will soon take over the business. Logging is dying a slow death from environmental restrictions and all that’s left are the scrub firs and jackpine. But far up in the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota are trees called the Old Pines. These three hundred year Norwegian pines are priceless and Johnson Timber wants them. A radical leader of Earth First, Tom Jorde, will do anything to stop the logging in the Boundary Waters. Then another logger is murdered and Jorde is implicated. The town pressures Reuger to stop the environmentalist and arrest an Indian, Tommy Toboken, for the rape of the girl. Tommy had saved his life once before and Reuger knows he is being setup. When he falls in love with the lawyer brought to town to defend Tom Jorde and realizes Johnson Timber is going to log out the Federally protected trees, Reuger is torn between old loyalties and what is right. (William Hazelgrove)
Jack Pine, by William Hazelgrove- Amazon Sales Rank: #3500194 in Books
- Brand: Hazelgrove, William
- Published on: 2015-05-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .76" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 300 pages
Review Best-selling author Hazelgrove (e.g., Real Santa; Tobacco Sticks. The Pitcher) captures the human need to believe in something good.” ―Library Journal (William Hazelgrove)“Hazelgrove writes with warmth and feeling, his characters richly drawn, moving and evocative of it’s time.” ―Booklist (William Hazelgrove)"In northern Minnesota, a logger is found dead. At about the same time, a teenage girl claims that she was molested by a Native American, but then changes her story. Some concerned citizens wonder if the same man is responsible for both incidents, but Deputy Sheriff Reuger London isn’t inclined to jump to conclusions, as he’s convinced neither that the logger’s death was murder nor that the girl was really molested. Under pressure to close the cases, London soon finds himself stuck in the middle of a potentially violent conflict between loggers and environmentalists. Hazelgrove tells great stories (his last book was the wonderful Real Santa, 2014), and he creates believable, captivating characters. The people in Jack Pine feel like just that: people, not fictional characters. Hazelgrove gives these characters a tactile environment, the Minnesota Boundary Waters region near the Canadian border, and real voices (that distinctive upper-mid-western drawl we know from Fargo). Another fine effort from a very interesting writer. This one will appeal especially to William Kent Krueger fans." ―David Pitt (William Hazelgrove)“The pleasure of this book is in the vivid use of language―almost synesthetic in the way that it awakens several senses at the same time―one almost sees, hears, feels and smells the forest and the people. The characters ring true and come to life.” ―Nanette Tredoux (William Hazelgrove)“Suspenseful and intriguing. Wonderful descriptions of the Boundary Waters region of Minnesota, and well-developed, believable characters. A must-read for mystery fans and lovers of the North Woods.” ―Good Reads (William Hazelgrove)
From the Author This the first in the Reuger London series set in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota. TIMBER WOLF will be out within the year. I spent ten years going to the Boundary Waters and getting to know the people and the land and the issues that are important to that part of the country. I also had the opportunity to ride around with a Deputy Sherriff and spend time at an old logging camp that ultimately gave me the idea for Jack Pine. If you like a good mystery set in a spectacular setting that conjures up the way the country was before it was logged out, then Jack Pine is your book.
About the Author William Hazelgrove is the best-selling author of six novels: Ripples, Mica Highways, Rocket Man, Tobacco Sticks, The Pitcher, and his latest, Real Santa. His books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Book of the Month Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards Junior Library Guild Selections, Booklist Editors Choice Awards, and optioned for the movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. He has written articles and reviews for USA Today and other publications and has been featured on NPR All Things Considered. The New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today have all covered his books with features. He runs a political cultural blog, The View From Hemingway’s Attic. He lives in Chicago. (William Hazelgrove)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Simply superb By honest Abe William Hazelgrove has rapidly become my favorite novelist. I have read most of his works, and I have marveled at his writing skills and story telling. He is a master at literary fiction. For me, this latest work is his greatest achievement. This is a story I literally did not want to put down. I was mesmerized by the writing and the story.This is in some ways an old story,and yet it is a contemporary story of a place that us northeasterners can hardly imagine still exists. It's an old story in that it's reminiscent of the old westerns . The wealthy rancher controls the fate of the inhabitants of the town because the people owe their living to the boss; or the company town is dependent upon the largess of the company boss man. In both cases no one is willing to risk standing up for justice or the law for fear of the loss of their job. But like Sheriff Will Kane in High Noon, the great Gary Cooper character, Hazelgrove finds his rugged individualist in Deputy Sheriff Reuger London. He is that special man that can deal with the harshness and loneliness of the wilderness Northwoods and stand up to a compromised Sheriff and the town's virtual sole provider, Ben Johnson ofJohnson Timber. But even Rueger has his demons and ghosts which motivate his actions. This is a contemporary story because it deals with a dying logger town in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota adjacent to Canada. The sole source of employment, other than a small lodge, is Johnson Timber a logging company. There is no competition save for a few independent loggers. The way of life is almost extinct because the forests of the Northwoods are almost bereft of trees worthy of commercial logging. Environmentalists have further impinged upon the loggers by statute, judicial fiat, and acts of extreme activism. In short the town is near bankruptcy. The Native Americans whose ancestors sold the Northwoods for virtually nothing, live in resentment and poverty amidst the loggers and Johnson timber. Suddenly the first homicide in twenty years occurs and Reuger must investigate whether it's suicide, murder, and who may have the motive to do it. Then things get complicated. I won't provide more of the story except to say if you think you have it figured out, think again. There are twists and turns without any signage. You will come to adore Gus, Reuger's father figure and de facto deputy or dislike the eccentric town's radio/muckraker John McFee, and hope for Tommy Tobin. Oh, and did I mention that there is a romantic twist as well which will leave you in tears? (I cry a lot when I read Hazelgrove's books-he has that ability).. I highly recommend that you jump aboard this boat and tour the wilderness lands of The Northwoods and their inhabitants. Don't let the odd language or the unfamiliar terms of the geology deter you. Once you get into the book, there is no stopping.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful. When Things Get Ugly in a Company Town By Sam Sattler Sheriff Reuger London’s job is not an easy one. His jurisdiction, one he works with a very limited amount of help, encompasses a remote forest area near the Canadian border almost completely populated by men – men to whom physical violence seems almost normal. To top it off, his is very much a company town dominated by the only employer of consequence anywhere around, Johnson Timber. And, because theirs is a dying industry that has attracted the attention of environmentalist activists wanting to finish the job of shutting the loggers down, the sheriff is sitting on a powder keg. When the 16-year-old daughter of a prominent lawyer who is vacationing with his family in a nearby fishing lodge is raped in a woodshed on lodge property, things get ugly.Despite the usual violation of its treaties with the U.S. government resulting in more and more of its land being confiscated, the Ojibwa Indian Tribe now owns most of the still-unlogged forest remaining anywhere around Johnson Timber. The tribe, in fact, owns the most valuable trees still standing: acres and acres of 300-year-old Norwegian Pines coveted by every logger around. Now, though, one of the tribe’s own, Tommy Toboken, is being accused of raping the lawyer’s daughter – and it is up to his old friend Sheriff Reuger London to bring him in.But after someone starts shooting loggers, Sheriff London has more to worry about than Tommy Toboken. Soon Ben Johnson, owner of Johnson Timber, is pointing fingers at the environmentalists; the environmentalists are pointing fingers at the loggers; and the Indians don’t trust anyone on either side. Now London has to figure out how to stop the sniper before he kills again. Even though the environmentalists have the most obvious motive for shooting at loggers, Sheriff London decides to widen the scope of his investigation, and soon everyone around him is ducking for cover.Jack Pine is a first-rate crime thriller very much dependent upon the setting in which Hazelgrove has placed it. The author vividly portrays a lifestyle and a physical environment few Americans ever get the opportunity to see for themselves, and that is a big part of the fun of Jack Pine. But because I am so unfamiliar with the accent and speech patterns of the area, the phrasing of some of the dialogue became noticeably repetitive after a while. Although I suspect that Hazelgrove accurately portrays the conversational pattern of his novel’s setting, I grew weary of how many times I had to read “oh, ya” or “oh, ya, you bet.” I just do not have the experienced ear required to “hear” the dialogue of this region, and the overuse of “oh, ya” became an irritant.Bottom Line: Despite my quibble about dialogue, this is a fine thriller with an intriguing setting.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. GOT YOUR PINE RIGHT HERE, JACK By Robert L. Brockett You can actually hear and breathe the pine winds blowing all through William Hazelgrove’s Minnesotan Boundary Waters in his new mystery novel, JACK PINE, a rich and varied yarn after the old fashion. Hazelgrove’s characters arrive here fully formed, as coarsely and callously and agreeably real as the people who truly inhabit those wild and darkly beautiful lands. I speak, as Hazelgrove writes, from experience. Knowing people and place is paramount in a work such as this and the whole thing soon falls apart if you don’t get it right. Hazelgrove gets it right. Even if you have never been, still you know from page one where you are. No easy trick, after all, this careful blending of the exotic with the familiar. As with all of his best work, Hazelgrove has proved here a better mystery novelist than most, simply because he’s a better novelist than most. His is a sure hand on the tiller, guiding you through some very difficult and thrilling waters, but there is also a kind of literary grounding informing every carefully constructed sentence and paragraph, rare in what is usually thought to be genre work. What really makes this book sing, though, is Hazelgrove’s undeniable success handling the human element. From Deputy Sheriff London to businessman Ben Johnson to activist Tom Jorde and a forest-full of other characters, we know these people. There are familiar dimensions to each, despite their remote and oft-frozen existences and strange speech patterns. Hazelgrove brings all glowingly to life in JACK PINE, and the twist at the end, the one you won’t see coming? That ain’t bad, either. After TOBACCO STICKS, I believe this is my favorite book by this author. Highly recommended.
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