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Mac Crow Thriller #4
Dying to Win
“Do a reality TV show,” they said.
“It’ll be fun,” they said...
When Mac and Rosa become contestants on a wilderness reality TV show, it sounds like the chance of a lifetime. And who has a better chance than a wilderness tracker and an ex-marine, both in top shape?
Everything is not what it seems though. Someone is hunting the contestants with the intent to kill. Even worse: a long, slow death in the wilderness with barbarous traps. Is one of the competitors willing to win at any cost? Mac and Rosa must find out, if they want to survive the game.
“It’ll be fun,” they said...
When Mac and Rosa become contestants on a wilderness reality TV show, it sounds like the chance of a lifetime. And who has a better chance than a wilderness tracker and an ex-marine, both in top shape?
Everything is not what it seems though. Someone is hunting the contestants with the intent to kill. Even worse: a long, slow death in the wilderness with barbarous traps. Is one of the competitors willing to win at any cost? Mac and Rosa must find out, if they want to survive the game.
200 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 31, 2020
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About the author
Clint Hollingsworth
36 books43 followersClint Hollingsworth has spent a good deal of his time in the woods since he was a child. He developed a certain sensitivity to the happenings around him out there, but in 1990, he became a student of the Tom Brown Jr Tracker School learning wilderness survival and tracking. This led him to more advanced training from Naturalist Jon Young in tracking and awareness, skills which have saved his life in the far back country.
He began his serious martial arts training in 1980 with Sensei Steve Olfs and has been trained by Sensei's Michael Dascenzo, Sensei Scott Schweitzer, Sensei Kevin Ingalls and Shihan John Roseberry. He holds a 4th degree black belt in Sho Rei Shobu Kan Okinawan Goju Ryu.
Clint is the author of the long running post-apocalyptic webcomic (and its attending books) The Wandering Ones at wanderingones.com with over 20,000 readers across the world.
He is in the woods whenever possible.
He lives in Wenatchee, WA with his lovely wife Susie and waaaayyy too many cats (and a neurotic wiener dog)
He began his serious martial arts training in 1980 with Sensei Steve Olfs and has been trained by Sensei's Michael Dascenzo, Sensei Scott Schweitzer, Sensei Kevin Ingalls and Shihan John Roseberry. He holds a 4th degree black belt in Sho Rei Shobu Kan Okinawan Goju Ryu.
Clint is the author of the long running post-apocalyptic webcomic (and its attending books) The Wandering Ones at wanderingones.com with over 20,000 readers across the world.
He is in the woods whenever possible.
He lives in Wenatchee, WA with his lovely wife Susie and waaaayyy too many cats (and a neurotic wiener dog)
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January 17, 2021
Mac Crow, tracking expert and bounty hunter, is persuaded by his girlfriend to enter a reality show. The premise of the show is a race through really rugged country by survivalists. Everything seems to be pretty low budget, but there is a $500,000 cash prize.
Unfortunately, someone thinks the prize is worth killing over.
Throughout the trip, people are sabotaged. Many are injured, one is even killed. Mac and Co. figure out the plot, and try to bring the perpetrators to justice, with a small reward.
The sub-sub-genre of the tracking fiction is tiny and obscure, with I think only three series, but there is some good fiction in it.
Unfortunately, someone thinks the prize is worth killing over.
Throughout the trip, people are sabotaged. Many are injured, one is even killed. Mac and Co. figure out the plot, and try to bring the perpetrators to justice, with a small reward.
The sub-sub-genre of the tracking fiction is tiny and obscure, with I think only three series, but there is some good fiction in it.
March 21, 2021
This is a well-written and entertaining mystery/adventure story.
At its core this is a wilderness adventure story, but there's a well-crafted mystery woven within it. The hero, Mac Crow, wins in the end but not without personal sacrifice. In that, it resembles the better of the Travis McGee series, but without the pontification. There are enough moral issues raised to make one think, but the story never descends to the level of a morality play (although there is a touch of that at the end).
In terms of the writing, I think this story regains and exceeds the energy and freshness of the first one in the series. The plot is well crafted, and offers enough complexity to be entertaining (and teasing) without becoming excessively complex.
I quite enjoyed this book and look forward to the next in the series.
At its core this is a wilderness adventure story, but there's a well-crafted mystery woven within it. The hero, Mac Crow, wins in the end but not without personal sacrifice. In that, it resembles the better of the Travis McGee series, but without the pontification. There are enough moral issues raised to make one think, but the story never descends to the level of a morality play (although there is a touch of that at the end).
In terms of the writing, I think this story regains and exceeds the energy and freshness of the first one in the series. The plot is well crafted, and offers enough complexity to be entertaining (and teasing) without becoming excessively complex.
I quite enjoyed this book and look forward to the next in the series.
October 8, 2020
Dying to Win
Another explosive thriller from a superb writer! The Mac Crow series is by far my favourite tracker series! What a wild story with unmatched characters and in the wildest of locations, The Canadian Rockies! Let us hope that we don't have to wait to long for book 5!
Another explosive thriller from a superb writer! The Mac Crow series is by far my favourite tracker series! What a wild story with unmatched characters and in the wildest of locations, The Canadian Rockies! Let us hope that we don't have to wait to long for book 5!
February 11, 2021
Good story!
A good read, exciting scenes, especially the last one on the beach. Crow won, but not without injuries himself. This is the second time I've read this series.
A good read, exciting scenes, especially the last one on the beach. Crow won, but not without injuries himself. This is the second time I've read this series.
June 26, 2021
Love this series!
June 15, 2023
Wilderness mayhem!
I liked this a lot, and the fact that there are a lot of wilderness survival shows makes intersecting this with some well developed reccuring characters work.
I liked this a lot, and the fact that there are a lot of wilderness survival shows makes intersecting this with some well developed reccuring characters work.
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