The Last Ranger
About this book
From the series: Vintage Contemporariesđ§Run Time = 8 hours and 2 minutesâWilderness noir at its best⌠Will please fans of C. J. Box, Craig Johnson, and the legions of admirers of the television series Yellowstoneâ (Booklist): When national park ranger Ren Hopper catches sight of a local poacher in Yellowstone National Park, an investigation reveals a terrifying conspiracy. Read by a âhighly accomplishedâ narrator, âthis audiobook will appeal to manyâ (AudioFile).The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone National Park where a skirmish between a local hunter and a wolf biologist turns violent, and a park ranger, facing his own personal demons, sets out to determine what really happened.Ren is a park ranger, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: breaking up fights at campgrounds, saving tourists from moose attacks, and attempting to broker an uneasy peace between the wealthy vacationers who tromp around with cameras and the locals who want to carve out a meaningful living amid this western landscape.When Ren discovers his friend Hilly, a biologist and wolf expert, nearly dead in the steel jaws of a wolf trap, he hopes itâs just an accident, but the small red ribbon tied to the stake makes him fairly certain that it wasnât. What begins as an inquiry into a known poacher soon opens into the discovery of a local group of ranchers who have formed an alliance at odds with both the park and with Renâs responsibility to protect it.Rife with surprising humor, populated by a cast of extraordinary characters, each drawn to Yellowstone for their own reasons, Peter Heller once again mines the rich vein where our very human impulses play out against the stunning beauty of the natural world.