Skookum Summer

"Skookum is a Pacific Northwest Indian word that translates to 'powerful,' 'splendid,' or 'memorable.' Jack Hart's prose is skookum. So is this novel." -Richard Hoyt, author of Darwin's Secret "Hart's debut is both a compelling mystery and a serious work of literature about coming of age, the dying newspaper business, and changes sweeping the Pacific Northwest forests. The writing is lyrical and the landscape is so expertly drawn that readers will be transported there even if they never leave their houses." -Bruce DeSilva, former Associate Press senior editor and author of Providence Rag. "Skookum Summer has the pleasing rhythm of an old fashioned movie and serves as an engaging ode to the dark and charming twilight of Northwest logging towns. In Jack Hart's capable hands, his novel somehow juggles murder and romance, meth labs and fly fishing, journalistic ethics and small-town ethos, all with aplomb" -Jim Lynch, author of Truth Like the Sun "A highly skilled writer with a love of the Northwest, Hart paints a strong and vivid portrait of an important era in Northwest history, when we went from logging and fishing to software and finance." -William Dietrich, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at the Seattle Times and author of The Final Forest "Jack Hart knows the Pacific Northwest waters and woods and characters as if he grew up on Puget Sound and still lives there, which he did and does. Skookum Summer features a hotshot young newshound stalking the bad guys--log rustlers and meth cookers--but it's even more a book about place. Hart nails it." -Robin Cody, author of Ricochet River