On Deadly Ground, Michael Norman
On Deadly Ground, Michael Norman
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On Deadly Ground

Author: Michael Norman

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2010

Synopsis

Kanab, Utah, is bitterly divided by the politics of land management. The conflict pits environmentalist David Greenbriar against the Citizens for a Free West. When the bulletridden body of Greenbriar is soon found, the county sheriff seeks help from newly appointed Law Enforcement Ranger J. D. Books. Books discovers a possible witness to the murder, a reclusive teenager with a penchant for disappearing into the wilderness. Books connects Greenbriars murder to a corrupt sheriffs department deputy and a Las Vegas business conglomerate with ties to organized crime. Then a dangerous mob contract killer shows up who will stop at nothing to eliminate any evidence linking his employer to Greenbriars murder. The contract killer returns to Kanab to hunt down the missing teenage witness and for an inevitable show down with Books.

About Michael Norman

Michael Norman, a former reporter and columnist for the New York Times, is on the faculty of the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University and is the author of These Good Men: Friendships Forged in War. Norman was the inaugural writer for the New York Times columns "A Sense of Place," a monthly column exploring the dislocations of modern life in one suburban town; "Lessons," a national column on education; and "Our Towns," a twice-weekly column on life outside New York City.
Norman has also written major articles for various other national publications, including the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, and GQ. His work has been syndicated both in the United States and abroad, and he is the author of These Good Men: Friendships Forged in War, a memoir published to critical acclaim in 1990. He lives with his wife and two sons in New Jersey.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carl

Michael Norman writes in a straight-forward kind of abrupt style that can be off-putting. An almost endless march of short declarative sentences doesn’t allow for much rhythm or flexibility in approach. Nevertheless, the author has constructed a novel with an excellent foundation, logical developmen......more

Goodreads review by Elaine

In Book 1 of the J.D. Books Mystery Series, we meet J.D. Books, who had had to leave his position in the Denver police force and returns to his childhood home of Kanab Utah as a BLM Ranger. He quickly gets embroiled in a recent homicide and this is the book about him tracking down this killer. There......more

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