Village of the Ghost Bears
Stan Jones
ISBN: 9781569476062
Published: December 2009
Pricing
Paperback $14.00
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Description
Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and an arson at the Chukchi Recreation Center. That fire killed eight people, including the police chief and the town’s basketball star. Active’s investigation leads him to a lucr...
Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and an arson at the Chukchi Recreation Center. That fire killed eight people, including the police chief and the town’s basketball star. Active’s investigation leads him to a lucrative polar-bear poaching operation and a brother and sister with an intense bond from a village famous for twins, polar bears, and schizophrenia.
Media
“Robust.... Active maintains his awe of the vast Alaskan tundra, a forbidding region that Jones renders in all its bone-chilling beauty. ”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Jones captures in precise detail... the starkly individual spirit of the village's collection of characters....His depiction of a freezing world of tarpaper houses and whaling camps is absolutely convincing. ”
—Houston Chronicle
“In the fourth book of this enchanting series set in Alaska ... [Jones has] created a richly populated universe you’ll be sorry to leave.”
—People
“Chilling.... Fascinating.”