WINTER IN THE HEART: A Hemlock County Novel
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“A searing novel of corporate corruption and justice denied.” – Jay Parini
“A wonderfully affirmative novel written with grace, style, and verve.” – Florida Times-Union
“A novel of astonishing depth and power.” – Jack Anderson
“A courtroom thriller with vividly imagined and deftly rendered characters.” – Publishers Weekly
Reclusive hermit and ex-hunter W. T. Halvorsen is a scapegoat for the crimes of the rich and the powerful in remote Hemlock County, Pennsylvania. Dragged into a courtroom in shackles on federal terrorism charges, he must convince a judge and jury that everything they believe about their local government and their town's chief employer is a lie. His only friends outside the courtroom are a young beautician and a mentally disturbed teenaged boy. But saving his life could cost their own.
An epic tale of crime, corruption and environmental destruction, and of one honest man's fight for the truth.
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About the author
DAVID POYER grew up in Western Pennsylvania. Millions of copies of his nearly fifty books are in print, including THE MED, THE GULF, THE CIRCLE, THE PASSAGE, TOMAHAWK, CHINA SEA, BLACK STORM, THE COMMAND, THE THREAT, KOREA STRAIT, THE WEAPON, THE CRISIS, THE TOWERS, THE CRUISER, TIPPING POINT, ONSLAUGHT, HUNTER KILLER, DEEP WAR, OVERTHROW, VIOLENT PEACE, and THE ACADEMY, USA Today bestselling novels of the modern Navy; FIRE ON THE WATERS, A COUNTRY OF OUR OWN, and THAT ANVIL OF OUR SOULS, historical fiction set during the Civil War; and the Tiller Galloway diving adventures, HATTERAS BLUE, BAHAMAS BLUE, LOUISIANA BLUE, DOWN TO A SUNLESS SEA, and YUCATAN BLUE. His work has been translated into Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, and Spanish.
Poyer’s least-known body of work, however, may be his Hemlock County series, set in a Faulknerian imaginary county in rural Pennsylvania. The first was THE DEAD OF WINTER (Tor Books); the second, WINTER IN THE HEART (Forge). AS THE WOLF LOVES WINTER was an alternate selection of The Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club. THUNDER ON THE MOUNTAIN, a historical novel set in Depression-era Pennsylvania, was released by Forge Books/St Martin’s Press, and received starred reviews from all three major reviewing agencies. THE HILL is a recently-published YA coming of age novel, also set in Hemlock County.
Poyer is on the board of the Northern Appalachian Review, and teaches as core faculty at the Ossabaw Writers Retreat. Website: www.poyer.com.
