The Captain and the Ice Queen and Other Stories

Twelve short stories by the author of Six Days in Siberia and The Joshua Line take the reader from the dense mountain forests of the Philippines to the east slope of the Sierra Mountains of California in the 1800s; from a train through Missouri during the Jim Crow years to the Schell Creek Range in Nevada; from an airstrip on a Pacific island during WWII to an apartment in San Francisco; from a track and field meet in the 1950s in Michigan to the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada; and from a nursing home to a mystical lake in the high Sierras. Memorable characters; men, women, children, and the elderly; emerge from these settings in stories about courage, danger, fear, compassion, romance, and the mystical. And when the reader is finished, that reader will have experienced a sense of wonder that will last long after the Kindle is put away. Go ahead. Find out for yourself.