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The Great Leader: A Novel
by Jim Harrison (Author) Format: Kindle Edition★★★★★
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Customers find this book to be a good read with a reasonably engaging story and unexpected plot twists, making it particularly enjoyable for fans of the UP. The writing receives praise for its wonderful prose, with one customer noting its rich content, and customers appreciate its insightful nature, with one highlighting its historical references throughout. Customers like the character development, with one particularly appreciating the flawed protagonist, and the book maintains a moving pace that captures human feelings.
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“A wild ride . . . [and] a thoroughly enjoyable tale of religion, sex and money . . . this is not your grandfather’s detective novel.” —Tim McNulty, The Seattle Times New York Times–bestselling author Jim Harrison has won international acclaim for his masterful body of work, including Returning to Earth, Legends of the Fall, and over thirty books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. In this enthralling, witty, and expertly crafted novel, he follows one man on a hunt for an elusive cult founder, dubbed “The Great Leader.” On the verge of retirement, Detective Sunderson begins to investigate a hedonistic cult, which has set up camp near his home in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. At first, the self-declared Great Leader seems merely a harmless oddball, but as Sunderson and his sixteen-year-old sidekick dig deeper, they find him more intelligent and sinister than they realized. Recently divorced and frequently pickled in alcohol, Sunderson tracks his quarry from the woods of Michigan to a town in Arizona, filled with criminal border-crossers, and on to Nebraska, where the Great Leader’s most recent recruits have gathered to glorify his questionable religion. But Sunderson’s demons are also in pursuit of him. “Jim Harrison is unsurpassed at chronicling man’s relationship with wilderness . . . The Great Leader is hugely enjoyable.” —Tom Bissell, Outside Magazine Read more
Product Information
ASIN | B005LPSO84 |
Publisher | Grove Press |
Accessibility | Learn more |
Publication date | October 4, 2011 |
Language | English |
File size | 6.9 MB |
Screen Reader | Supported |
Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
X-Ray | Enabled |
Word Wise | Enabled |
Print length | 346 pages |
ISBN-13 | 978-0802195081 |
Page Flip | Enabled |
Book 1 of 2 | Faux Mystery |
Best Sellers Rank | #173,092 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #425 in Psychological Literary Fiction #992 in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Literary Fiction #1,587 in Contemporary Literary Fiction |
Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 685 ratings |