A widow-maker doesn't announce itself.
Cal Walker walked into Mama Bea's diner and told Grady to pull his crews off the mountain. The derecho was coming. Sustained winds over seventy miles per hour. Gusts past a hundred and twenty. Grady slammed his coffee mug on the counter hard enough to crack it. "We got a quota to meet, Walker."
The crews went up. The storm hit two hours later. Now three logging camps are in crisis. A logger named Johnson is pinned under a skidder by a fallen tree. The river is debris-choked and impassable. And every route through the forest is lined with widow-makers — partially cut trees that the storm has turned into unpredictable killers. They fall without warning, without sound, and they don't miss.
WIDOWMAKER is the eighth book in the Black Mountain Series - where the storm that nearly killed the loggers may not have been natural.
Genre: Mystery
Cal Walker walked into Mama Bea's diner and told Grady to pull his crews off the mountain. The derecho was coming. Sustained winds over seventy miles per hour. Gusts past a hundred and twenty. Grady slammed his coffee mug on the counter hard enough to crack it. "We got a quota to meet, Walker."
The crews went up. The storm hit two hours later. Now three logging camps are in crisis. A logger named Johnson is pinned under a skidder by a fallen tree. The river is debris-choked and impassable. And every route through the forest is lined with widow-makers — partially cut trees that the storm has turned into unpredictable killers. They fall without warning, without sound, and they don't miss.
WIDOWMAKER is the eighth book in the Black Mountain Series - where the storm that nearly killed the loggers may not have been natural.
Genre: Mystery