"When a mysterious woman in distress appears outside his home, Mike Bowditch has no clue she is about to blow his world apart. Amber Langstrom is beautiful, damaged, and hiding a secret with a link to his past... She claims her son Adam is a wrongfully convicted sex offender who has vanished from a brutal work camp in the high timber around the Widowmaker Ski Resort. She also claims that Adam Langstrom is the illegitimate son of Jack Bowditch, Mike's dead and diabolical father. He is the half-brother Mike never knew he had. After trying so hard to put his troubled past behind him, Mike is reluctant to revisit the wild country of his childhood and again confront his father's history of violence. But Amber's desperation and his own need to know the truth make it hard for him to refuse her pleas for help. In search of answers, Bowditch travels through a mountainous wilderness to a place hidden from the rest of the world, where the military guards a top-secret interrogation base, sexual predators live together in a backwoods colony, and self-styled vigilantes are willing to murder anyone they consider their enemies. Mike Bowditch must exorcise the demons of the past before the real-life demons of the present kill him first"--
"After a mysterious woman gives Mike Bowditch disturbing news, the game warden goes looking for a family secret in a Maine ski town and discovers a vigilante who seems to be targeting sex offenders"--
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This book moved slower for me than the others. I got distracted a few times and had to push myself to pick the book back up. This story just didn't seem as exciting for me. I found myself hoping the young man he was trying to help really was his half brother. I was surprised at how disappointed I was at the end when his body was discovered. There was also a few other details at the end that I found disappointing. Mainly, I really hoped the wolf dog could have been kept in the story somehow. I guess it works out better that the dog was able to return to the wild but my heart was just hoping to read more about him. Who knows, maybe the dog will show up in other books somehow. I was also disappointed that the one character that Bowditch believed influenced the killer got away with it. I just hate unresolved issues.
