Stealing Gunflint Trail : 3rd volume of Arrowhead Trilogy by Gene Andereck

Plot

In Stealing Gunflint Trail, his boldest and most darkly plotted novel yet, lawyer-novelist Gene Andereck concludes his Arrowhead Trilogy with an intimate and powerful story of a man who has lost his family, lost his faith in the law, and lost his faith in himself. Where Trail at Grand Marais tells the story of injustice for a single Indian mother; and Grand Portage Incident tells the story of intolerance and injustice of an entire Indian tribe directed to one of their own; Anderecks latest novel tells the story of injustice for those who are charged with the responsibility of administering the laws of our state and nation. North of the United States border in a snowy river valley below Silver Falls in Canada's Quetico Provincial Park, and airplane crash becomes a focal point that starts a sequence of events in which no encounter is meaningless, no event without echo, no simple hope impossible to realize for those who turn to the rule of law for administering merit rewards or deserved punishments, or, so Errol Joyce thought. Errol Joyce is a talented lawyer and a passionate man. Though initially the injustice he feels is central to the story, it is peripheral to the injustice the United States dealt to Native North American tribes, who were also sovereigns, and occupied this land for thousands of years before we became a sovereign nation. Stealing Gunflint Trail will surprise - and enthrall - Gene Andereck fans. Written with the same rich blend of boundary water description, keen characterization, narrative drive, and suspense as in Trial at Grand Marais and Grand Portage Incident, it engages with new themes; conflicts of loyalty and duty, the corruption of corporate power, and redemption through love even after death. Ingenious, original, and irresistibly readable, it confirms again that Gene Anderecks Arrowhead Trilogy stands as one of the major pieces of Minnesotas written works of fiction. -- Dust jacket.