His vengeful old business partner is hot on his heels, a stick-in-the-mud State Trooper is dying to bust Clive for narcotics, and, to complicate everything, Clive might be going insane – lately, he’s been hearing animals talking to him. But Clive doesn’t realize the trouble he’s bringing home. He has a lot to make up to his younger brother, Miles, who has dutifully been taking care of their ailing mother. Clive “The Milkman” McCahon returns to his tiny Alaska hometown after a seven-year jail stint for dealing cocaine. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the town is withering. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity at the height of the frozen fish boom. The novel Cold Storage, Alaska by John Straley gets its title from a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you’re patient. But first, she has to take care of that pesky dead body in the trunk of her car… The woman, Ellie Hobbes, is an anarchist with big dreams. But along the way, he rescues a woman and her young niece from their car in the ditch, and his life takes a hard turn. Rattled by the gruesome accidental death of a co-worker, Slip Wilson quits his job at a logging camp, and decides to start anew in Seattle. John Straley Synopses: The Big Both Ways is a standalone novel by John Straley. Author of The Woman Who Married A Bear Members, Reviews, Popularity 1,186 (2,248), 69, 19,152 A former investigator for the Public Defender of the State of. If You Like John Straley Books, You’ll Love…
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