Midnight Sun
Chapter One
BEFORE
The best I can say was that I went to Alaska to build houses on an army base with my buddy Burke. We'd been chasing the buck together for two years, jobbing up and down the coast, never staying in any one place too long. All that mattered was the work, the coin and those brief moments just after punch-out when I walked back to my truck, bone tired and feeling like a king for having laid it down yet another day.
I was in love with Alaska-the trees and mountains; the rivers without end full of dying salmon and the grizzly bears ready to pounce on them. Everybody was searching for something-whacked-out Vietnam vets waiting for war, Christians praying for the rapture, hippies looking for paradise, strippers rolling dirty bills in their garters, backpackers trekking for that last untouched place. All this put to the soundtrack of sled dogs howling for winter from the back of pickup trucks.
And then there were the wolves-wolves that circled in packs where the roads ended and the maps became blank spaces.
This was the interior, not the sea-struck coast with its mild winters, but the vast middle where winters came early and hard-seventy below and dark by ... read full excerpt from Midnight Sun: A Novel ebook
