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ESCAPE is an adventure/wilderness survival/suspense novel. The action involves a prison escape on a wilderness river in Northern Wisconsin and the subsequent chase and capture of the inmate by the prison superintendent during an unprecedented Alberta Clipper snowstorm. Since the inmate is Native American Indian, and the superintendent’s children are of Chippewa heritage, there is a strong element of Native American Indian history in the book.

On another level it is the universal story of a man who has to be invulnerable to do his job and succumbs to excessive pride and the need to control. It is a story of fate, drawn from Indian myth and Greek drama.

“Weston felt the subtle nudge.  His adrenalin surged.  Tightening the line, he steered the fly ever so gently to one side.  Then it struck.  He lifted the pole and knew he had hooked it, how big he wasn’t sure.  It thrilled him to think he had captured a prize of nature.  It seldom happened, and he respected that, always had.  He kept his composure and followed the rules.  Not about to give in to a predator, the fish leapt from its watery haven, a perfect sunlit orbit.  It arced for an eternity, transforming pain into ecstasy.  Weston judged the trout to be a decent twenty-four inches.  This was the sublime moment when a practiced performer ventures into a foreign atmosphere.  He will carry it with him.”