Vickers Curtis Bradley Vickers

This Here Is Devil's Work (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this unflinching, dramatic adventure, modern-day wildland firefighters and cattle rustlers struggle for survival in a changing western landscape. Braiding the stories of two firefighters (Morgan and Jeremy) and an abrasive laundromat custodian turned cattle-rustling grandmother (Jacklynn), This Here Is Devil's Work is a fiery ride through the small towns of Nevada and Montana and the rugged expanse that connects them.A twelve-year veteran of the fireline, Morgan believes he knows what his teenage half-brother (Jeremy) needs to do to shrug off boyhood: spend a single season fighting forest fires to earn money for auto mechanic school. But when Jeremy joins the Ruby Mountain Hotshots and earns the respect and admiration of their fire boss (Bailey), Morgan must battle his own demons before they destroy him.Meanwhile, life hasn t been easy on Jacklynn she longs to escape the small town in Montana where she has lived her whole life and reunite with her daughter and grandson in Tucson. Jacklynn wants to make up for a lifetime of missteps by protecting the boy and making sure her daughter stays on course. On the same day that an attractive stranger waltzes into her life, an opportunity for life-changing money presents itself in the form of a dozen pregnant heifers. The only trouble is, they aren t hers not yet, anyway.Morgan and Jacklynn s paths cross when lightning ignites a blaze in the untamed Montana wilderness, and their choices force each other intothe fury.Set against the backdrop of wildfires raging across the West and the firefighters who continue to put their lives on the line, This Here Is Devil s Work explores how love and loneliness can sour, and how they can eventually lead to desperate and self-destructive acts even for those people we consider heroic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nevada Press
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781647790059
• Artikelnr.: 72282960

Autorenporträt

Curtis Bradley Vickers's short fiction and essays have been published by Sou'wester, Ohioana Quarterly, Shroud, Muscle & Blood, and GWS Press. From the first wildfire he experienced as a child fishing on the Mogollon Rim to the first time the Bonneville Salt Flats cracked beneath his feet, he has always wanted to pin to the page the West that filled his imagination. This Here is Devil's Work is Vickers's first novel. He lives in Reno, NV. For more information, visit curtisbradleyvickers.com.