Krueger is a local author for those of us in the Upper Midwest. I met him several years ago when he and his friends (who speak at events as Minnesota Crime Wave http://www.minnesotacrimewave.org/ ) spoke at the Lake Menomen Writers Series that I arranged. His protagonist, Cork O’Connor, promises to help his friend Henry Meloux find the son Meloux has never seen. An Ojibwe medicine man (Mide), Meloux has special abilities to sense the truth. O’Connor tracks the son to the Canadian wildness beyond the city of Thunder Bay. A large part of the novel takes us back to the 1930s, when Meloux was a very young man trying to exist in a white man’s world while learning the skills of a Mide. Another excellent book from an exceptional writer.
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