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PublisherIslandport Press, Incorporated

ISBN-101939017939

ISBN-139781939017932

eBay Product ID (ePID)218893805

Product Key Features

Book TitleStraw Man

Number of Pages350 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

TopicMystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled, Mystery & Detective / General

GenreFiction

AuthorGerry Boyle

Book SeriesA Jack Mcmorrow Mystery Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight23.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2015-945356

ReviewsJack McMorrow gets into some vicious fights in Straw Man, Gerry Boyle's new mystery in his rugged series set in the wilds of Maine. Take the bone-crunching brawl that Jack and his military-trained friends, Clair and Louis, get into when they run across four big guys with chain saws poaching hardwood trees on an old woman's land. The repercussions of that little scuffle not only complicate the onetime newspaper reporter's freelance assignment on private gun sales in Maine, but also endanger his family. The most hurtful fights, though, are those clenched-teethexchanges with his wife, Roxanne, over an elementary-school project on pacifism that has her working closely with the soft-handed gentleman goat farmer who owns Heaven Sent Farm. ('Must be cashmere goats,' Jack notes.) The difficulties facing peaceful people who must live in a violent world are revisited when Jack tries to write a story on a community of Old Order Mennonites. But, as Clair says when he hands Jack a Glock with an extra clip and two boxes of ammo: 'I'm all for pacifism. .'e^.'e^. But I'm not gonna die for it.', Jack McMorrow gets into some vicious fights in Straw Man, Gerry Boyle's new mystery in his rugged series set in the wilds of Maine. Take the bone-crunching brawl that Jack and his military-trained friends, Clair and Louis, get into when they run across four big guys with chain saws poaching hardwood trees on an old woman's land. The repercussions of that little scuffle not only complicate the onetime newspaper reporter's freelance assignment on private gun sales in Maine, but also endanger his family. The most hurtful fights, though, are those clenched-teethexchanges with his wife, Roxanne, over an elementary-school project on pacifism that has her working closely with the soft-handed gentleman goat farmer who owns Heaven Sent Farm. ('Must be cashmere goats,' Jack notes.) The difficulties facing peaceful people who must live in a violent world are revisited when Jack tries to write a story on a community of Old Order Mennonites. But, as Clair says when he hands Jack a Glock with an extra clip and two boxes of ammo: 'I'm all for pacifism. .'.'. But I'm not gonna die for it.', Jack McMorrow gets into some vicious fights in Straw Man, Gerry Boyle's new mystery in his rugged series set in the wilds of Maine. Take the bone-crunching brawl that Jack and his military-trained friends, Clair and Louis, get into when they run across four big guys with chain saws poaching hardwood trees on an old woman's land. The repercussions of that little scuffle not only complicate the onetime newspaper reporter's freelance assignment on private gun sales in Maine, but also endanger his family. The most hurtful fights, though, are those clenched-teethexchanges with his wife, Roxanne, over an elementary-school project on pacifism that has her working closely with the soft-handed gentleman goat farmer who owns Heaven Sent Farm. ('Must be cashmere goats,' Jack notes.) The difficulties facing peaceful people who must live in a violent world are revisited when Jack tries to write a story on a community of Old Order Mennonites. But, as Clair says when he hands Jack a Glock with an extra clip and two boxes of ammo: 'I'm all for pacifism. ... But I'm not gonna die for it.', Jack McMorrow gets into some vicious fights in Straw Man, Gerry Boyle's new mystery in his rugged series set in the wilds of Maine. Take the bone-crunching brawl that Jack and his military-trained friends, Clair and Louis, get into when they run across four big guys with chain saws poaching hardwood trees on an old woman's land. The repercussions of that little scuffle not only complicate the onetime newspaper reporter's freelance assignment on private gun sales in Maine, but also endanger his family. The most hurtful fights, though, are those clenched-teethexchanges with his wife, Roxanne, over an elementary-school project on pacifism that has her working closely with the soft-handed gentleman goat farmer who owns Heaven Sent Farm. ('Must be cashmere goats,' Jack notes.) The difficulties facing peaceful people who must live in a violent world are revisited when Jack tries to write a story on a community of Old Order Mennonites. But, as Clair says when he hands Jack a Glock with an extra clip and two boxes of ammo: 'I'm all for pacifism. ... But I'm not gonna die for it.'

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number11

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal813/.54

SynopsisIn this, the eleventh installment of the bestselling Jack McMorrow Mystery Series, McMorrow's nose for trouble sets him on the trail of an illegal gun sale pipeline linking private gun owners in Maine with a rash of homicides in Boston. Caught up in the action is a young Mennonite farm boy, who, while questioning his faith and his future, falls in with the wrong crowd. Add to this potent mix a run-in with a gang of local thugs, which leaves Roxanne the target of a violent sex offender intent on exacting his revenge. Never before has Jack faced so many threats on so many fronts, with the most destructive being his own tendency for violence and the havoc it wreaks on those he loves most. In this nonstop page turner, Boyle is at his best and most provocative. Straw Man asks the ultimate question: How far would you go to protect a way of life you love?, Crime reporter Jack McMorrow is drawn into the darkest tangle of his career when a story about illegal gunrunning between Massachusetts and Maine overlaps with a puff piece about Mennonites. Cultures and tempers clash as Jack tries to keep one step ahead of a looming tide of violence that threatens to take him and his family down forever., In this, the eleventh installment of the bestselling Jack McMorrow Mystery Series, McMorrow s nose for trouble sets him on the trail of an illegal gun sale pipeline linking private gun owners in Maine with a rash of homicides in Boston. Caught up in the action is a young Mennonite farm boy, who, while questioning his faith and his future, falls in with the wrong crowd. Add to this potent mix a run-in with a gang of local thugs, which leaves Roxanne the target of a violent sex offender intent on exacting his revenge. Never before has Jack faced so many threats on so many fronts, with the most destructive being his own tendency for violence and the havoc it wreaks on those he loves most. In this nonstop page turner, Boyle is at his best and most provocative. Straw Man asks the ultimate question: How far would you go to protect a way of life you love?"

LC Classification NumberPS3552.O925S77 2016