Coyote Willows

by S.D. Appleman

In Washington State, the government secretly plants hundreds of coyote willow trees along the Columbia River near a nuclear plant…In Oregon, a Deputy Sheriff dies in a mysterious car explosion…In the Nation’s Capital, an “Imminent Threat” report goes missing… Rotated stateside and assigned to Homeland Security, Major Jake Hawthorne battles PTSD as he struggles to adapt to civilian life. Warned off investigating a friend’s missing report, Jake rebels and returns home to the Pacific Northwest to find his friend has died in a fiery demolition derby. Jake alone believes it is murder and now he is the next target of someone anticipating his every move. Estranged from his family, Jake turns to a native shaman to unlock cryptic rock art clues to the murder and follow their trail across the high-desert landscape. The stakes rise when Jake uncovers more than a murder. Jake races the clock to expose a band of mercenaries tangled in a conspiracy sixty years in the making, as the land he loves teeters on the brink of an ecological Armageddon.

Genres: Fiction

374 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2015

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very well written adventure mystery about Hanford, the danger of nuclear waste storage, political corruption and a few other things. I foud this a very intense story; sometimes too intense. I am living in an intense place thanks to current political corruption and incompetence. At times I found the story so intense that I had to put it down. As a DOE alumni I appreciated things I knew about and enjoyed learning new stuff. At times the author uses a selfish noun approach so I needed to reread paragraphs to be sure that I was getting it. But I recommend this book as well worth the investment in time and emotion.

[Ann Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I never been a fan of thriller when it comes to books. As I am of thriller in movies. But when i saw that my friend's mother wrote a book I thought that i would give it a go. And that Coyote Willow had native americans in it was a small part of why i chose to read it, since i love learning of them and reading about them.

I'm not sure what i'm gonna say. It has both action mystery and charm. The first 15 % or so the book was a bit confusing since it was jumping from the one sibling to the other and to the reservation. And then back again.

I think this is a very good book.