9781493049981-1493049984-Bad Optics (Woods Cop)

Bad Optics (Woods Cop)

ISBN-13: 9781493049981
ISBN-10: 1493049984
Edition: Reprint
Author: Joseph Heywood
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Lyons Press
Format: Paperback 312 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781493049981
ISBN-10: 1493049984
Edition: Reprint
Author: Joseph Heywood
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Lyons Press
Format: Paperback 312 pages

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Bad Optics (Woods Cop) (ISBN-13: 9781493049981 and ISBN-10: 1493049984), written by authors Joseph Heywood, was published by Lyons Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Bad Optics (Woods Cop) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.72.

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Heywood has crafted an entertaining bunch of characters. An absorbing narrative twists and turns in a setting ripe for corruption. ― Dallas Morning News
Crisp writing, great scenery, quirky characters and an absorbing plot add to the appeal…. ― The Wall Street Journal
Heywood is a master of his form. ― Detroit Free Press
Top-notch action scenes, engaging characters both major and minor, masterful dialogue, and a passionate sense of place make this a fine series. ― Publishers Weekly
Joseph Heywood writes with a voice as unique and rugged as Michigan’s Upper Peninsula itself. -- Steve Hamilton, Edgar® Award-winning author of The Lock Artist
Well written, suspenseful, and bleakly humorous while moving as quickly as a wolf cutting through the winter woods. In addition to strong characters and . . . compelling romance, Heywood provides vivid, detailed descriptions of the wilderness and the various procedures and techniques of conservation officers and poachers…. Highly recommended. ― Booklist
Taut and assured writing that hooked me from the start. Every word builds toward the ending, and along the way some of the writing took my breath away. -- Kirk Russell, author of Dead Game and Redback
[A] tightly written mystery/crime novel . . . that offers a nice balance between belly laughs, head-scratching plot lines, and the real grit of modern police work. ― Petersen's Hunting
In 1913, Theodore Roosevelt recruits former Rough Rider Lute Bapcat to become a game warden on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula in Heywood’s absorbing first in a new series. Outsized characters, both real (athlete George Gipp before his Notre Dame fame, union organizer Mother Jones) and fictional (randy businesswoman Jaquelle Frei; Lute’s Russian companion, Pinkhus Sergeyevich Zakov), pepper the narrative. ― Publishers Weekly
Joseph Heywood has long been a red-blooded American original and an author worth reading. With Red Jacket—a colorful and sprawling new novel with a terrific new protagonist named Lute Bapcat—he raises the bar to soaring new heights. -- C.J. Box, New York Times bestselling author of Force of Nature
Heywood mixes history—the [miners’] strike and the violence it engenders, culminating with the Christmas Eve Italian Hall Disaster in Calumet, Michigan, in which 73 died—with vivid characterizations in a . . . promising series opener. ― Booklist
In the eleventh Woods Cop Mystery, Conservation Officer Grady Service is on unpaid suspension until spring, but—stubborn as ever—continues to patrol the Mosquito Wilderness, along with his complicated past. Service is off-duty through July 4 following a season in which Service and his unofficial partner (lifelong poacher Limpy Allerdyce) cleaned up on deer-law violators and poachers, closing more big cases in two weeks than most officers solve in their careers. His reward? He is summoned to Lansing, told he is on unpaid suspension, his badge, firearms, and truck taken. The rationale for the action is fuzzy, a questioning of his using a lifelong lawbreaker as partner. For the first time, Service has no duties and feels like he has been beached unfairly. But voluntarily on patrol, he begins to sense political shenanigans–an old foe lurking somewhere in the shadows. He could retire, but decides to fight, and enlists help from Allerdyce and fellow game warden and Vietnam Veteran Luticious Treebone. Clues accumulate: It seems someone wants to illegally commercialize the Mosquito. Grady realizes if he doesn’t stop it, the wilderness will be destroyed. The tight story unfolds like a poker game, with one side bluffing and raising, while the other side keeps calling and keeping the game on until there is a final showdown.

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