Lauren Maxwell, an investigator for the Wild America Society, flies to Alaska's McNeil River Sanctuary after getting an urgent message from her friend Roland Taft, an eccentric biologist and a staunch defender of the grizzly. She arrives to find his grizzly-mauled corpse, but it's soon clear that this was no random bear attack. . . .
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2 primary booksLauren Maxwell Series is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1993 with contributions by Elizabeth Quinn.
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I found this book a bit cheesy but I did enjoy reading about Alaska. This wasn't just a book that said it was set in Alaska and then used a bunch of made-up places. This book mentioned real places, buildings, and roads; places that I've been to. It really bugged me when it mentioned the bear researcher that was mauled by a bear, especially when I read that this guy never carried a gun. People just don't do that in Alaska but something niggled in the back of my mind and reminded me of one particular guy who did just that. I did some googling and remembering. The book seems to be referencing the late Timothy Treadwell who loved bears so much he couldn't bear to even use pepper spray on them so he wouldn't carry it or a gun. In the end, he and his girlfriend were killed by a hungry bear in 2003. The spooky part is this book is copyrighted 1993. I read that Timothy spent 13 summers in Katmai National Park schmoozing with the bears and other wildlife. This means that this author could have known of him and predicted the ending. It's sad but... it seems to have come true. Sometimes you can see the end coming for someone and you can't do anything about it.
