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Deadly Detail

When bush pilot Alex Price gets an evening charter flight to Fairbanks he’s looking forward to dinner and a visit with his old friends Stan and Angie. Instead, Stan is killed by a bomb and professional killers stalk Alex and Angie. It’s a cat-and-mouse game around Fairbanks with death as the prize. Angie struggles with the grief of losing Stan and tries to master the stoicism of her Athabascan Indian ancestors. When Alex shoots two assassins, two more come to take their place.

The search for who is trying to kill them and why takes them from Point Barrow to Valdez, but the final showdown is back in the bookkeeping office where it all started.

Review:

I've been on sort of an Alaskan kick. First Dana Stabenow's BLINDFOLD
GAME (excellent book!) and now Poisoned Pen's DEADLY DETAIL by Don Porter.

Porter's voice is so good he has you ...smelling moose(?)

Using a minimum of words he paints a clear and concise picture of the (I've gotta say it) the frozen tundra.

And something I've never thought about,or was aware of, the existence of racial tension between Indians and Eskimos.

DEADLY DETAIL is an excellent first novel. More a why'd they done it than a who done it. Now I want to know if we'll be hearing more from Don Porter and, Don, if you're out there, how about including a map in the next one?

Del Tinsley
Who has no sense of direction and in snow?
Forgetaboutit.

Review:

Alex Price, a Bethel bush pilot in Fairbanks, Alaska, is looking forward to a pleasant evening, catching up with 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, there to witness Stan's violent death in the explosion of his vehicle. No fool, Alex percieves a possible threat to Angie. And he's right...

"A retired pilot, Porter writes gracefully about flying in Alaska in his soaring debut, evoking its breathtaking beauty and the joy of traveling across the state in a small plane... The fast pacing and gorgeous scenery hook the reader from the beginning."

--Publishers Weekly