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Village of the Ghost Bears: A Nathan Active Mystery,Used
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[Jones]'s created a richly populated universe you'll be sorry to leavePeople MagazineYou can't fake the stuff Stan Jones pulls off in Village of the Ghost Bears . . . A writer of muscular words and stark images, Jones sets up his scenes like film shots. . . . This kind of writing makes for strong reading, especially with a sturdy murder plot to give it structure.New York Times Book ReviewTrooper Nathan Active's beat is a few outposts in a remote, frigid world. But wherever people live, they bring greed, madness, and death. Active's courageous and stubborn determination to gather the scattered bits of evidence make Stan Jones's Village of the Ghost Bears a fascinating rendition of the human struggle for truth.Thomas Perry, author of Runner and Vanishing ActHis sympathetic portrayal of Alaska's mixedethnic traditions is a tribute to both the state and the states of mind it inspires.Publishers Weekly, starred reviewPraise for the Nathan Active series:No one shows you the ugly side of Alaska the way Stan Jones does.Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewTrooper Active proves such an interesting and likable guide that the selfish reader cant but hope Nathan wont get that Anchorage transfer for at least a few more books.The Wall Street JournalI cant wait for Nathan Actives next adventure.Chicago TribuneJones captures in precise detail . . . the starkly individual spirit of this villages collection of characters. . . . His depiction of a freezing world of tarpaper houses and whaling camps is absolutely convincing.Houston ChronicleFirst rate.Library Journal, starred reviewAlaska State Trooper Nathan Active must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a yearold fatal plane crash in the Brooks Range and a fire at the Chukchi Recreation Center that killed eight people, including the towns basketball star. The case turns out to involve a lucrative polar bear poaching operation and the intense bond between a brother and sister from the village of Cape Goodwin, famous in the Arctic for twins, polar bears, and schizophrenia. The heart of the matter, he discovers, is a dead woman whose killer remembers her as having a mouth so sweet it was like kissing a Hershey bar.Stan Jones is a native of Alaska. He has worked as an awardwinning journalist and a bush pilot. He is the author of three previous mysteries in the acclaimed Nathan Active series.
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