Bigfoot (John Denson Mysteries) - Softcover

Richard Hoyt, a graduate of the University of Oregon, is a former fellow of the Washington Journalism Center and holds a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Hawaii. He served as U.S. army counterintelligence agent, wrote for daily newspapers in Honolulu, and was a stringer for Newsweek magazine. He taught journalism at the University of Maryland and at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Or.

Hoyt is the author of the John Denson mysteries, the James Burlane thrillers and numerous other novels of adventure, espionage and suspense including two under the pseudonym of Nicholas van Pelt. In researching and writing in more than two dozen countries in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, he has ridden trains across the Soviet Union and riverboats down the Amazon. He now lives in the Philippines.

Not so much a mystery as an entertainingly cynical adventure story, this clever new series installment (after Whoo? ) sends offbeat Northwest detective John Denson and his partner, Indian shaman Willie Prettybird, on the trail of the legendary Sasquatch. Denson and Prettybird are hired to guide Russian primatologist Sonja Popoleyev up the slopes of Mt. St. Helens on her quest to determine what, if anything, Bigfoot might be, and, incidentally, to pick up the $100,000 prize offered for its capture by a local promoter. Their competitors include explorers and Bigfoot believers from all over the world. Before the expeditions can begin, the promoter and his brother are murdered, but the hunt for the creature goes on, with Denson wondering who among the searchers might have reason to kill. The murders provide the jumping-off point for a fast, funny and deliciously crazy story that mixes Denson's skepticism with Prettybird's mysticism and attempts to answer, in terms of primate evolutionary science, the eternal question of what women and men really want from each other.
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