Running Dark by Joseph Heywood

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Joseph Heywood
• Title: Running Dark (A Woods Cop Mystery)
• Publisher: ‎ The Lyons Press; First Edition (January 1, 2005)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover w/Library Binding – 294 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 1592286178
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1592286171
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.35 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.25 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches
• Book Condition: Used – Very Good (Former library book; may include the markings and stickers associated from the library. May show signs of wear or minor discoloration on page edges). 
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good (Mylar Library Dust Jacket)
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

Grady Service is back. And this time the scene is dicier than ever. We go back in time twenty-five years to meet Service as a young conservation officer. He's fresh from his transfer from the streets of Detroit, and he's on his home turf now. Service is good at his new job, and he's been tapped for an unusual assignment that threatens to be his last. It's the height of the Garden Wars, the historical battle in the U.P.'s Garden Peninsula. The Garden has always been a lawless place. In the 1970s, commercial fishing was outlawed.

Armed fishermen claimed their takes and to hell with law enforcement. The renegades far outgunned the

COs who, understaffed and underfunded, risked their lives daily. Murders were committed, shoot-outs were common, and overfishing continued. A one-legged female informant emerges. Service goes undercover and when he resurfaces nothing is the same, least of all, Grady Service. He's as good as dead. The ring he blows apart in the Garden makes Service a lifelong enemy who returns to haunt him decades later. Service came out on top the first time around. The question is whether he'll be able to again.

About the Author:

Joseph Heywood was born in Rhinebeck, New York. Grew up as Air Force brat. 1961 graduate of Rudyard High School in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Michigan State graduate, BA-Journalism, 1965. USAF, 1965-1970. Graduate studies in English Literature at Western Michigan University in mid-1970s. Former adjunct professor of professional writing at Western Michigan University.

Author, cartoonist, painter, poet, photographer, fisherman, hiker, Heywood spends up to a month a year in trucks on patrol with Michigan conservation officers to gather information for the Woods Cop mystery series. The experience helps make the stories authentic. Almost everything in the series has happened to a CO somewhere in the state.

His blog, rich in colorful and interesting photographs, is "Joe-Roads," on his web-site, www.josephheywood.com.