About the Book
The men who set off from Tacoma, Washington State, on a hunting trip
in the high country formed an unlikely group. There was ex-GI Dan
Alders, his big brother Jack the loser, tough ex-Marine sergeant
McKlearey, Cal, the big-shot wheeler-dealer, and finally mild, henpecked
Stan.
In town they had been held together by a mutual taste for beer, spirits
and endless arguments – with a little lying and wife-stealing on the
side. But now, high in the mountains on a test of endurance to see who could
bag the biggest deer, everything was falling aprat.
As old jealousies were dusted off and forgotten hatreds revived,
everyone knew an explosion was coming. No one knew who or what would
survive. Only the tattered shreds of their pride kept them from giving
up and returning...
