{"product_id":"the-stick-game-9780312326142","title":"The Stick Game","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith their exceptional characterizations  evocative setting  and smartly plotted mysteries  Peter Bowens Montana novels have always fascinated readers and critics alike. In The Stick Game  Bowens lyrical  spare writing carries us once again to a part of the country few of us know much about.  The latest installment in this unique series finds amateur sleuth and cattle rancher Gabriel Du Pre uncovering the dirty secrets of an industrial gold mine and searching for a troubled teenage boy. At a trading fair in rural Montana  Du Pre and his longtime love Madelain run into Jeanne now worries about the disappearance of her sixteen-year-old son  Danny. Meanwhile  Du Pre befriends a musician from Fort Belknap Reservation who introduces him to disturbing parallels between the huge incidence of birth defects in the Indian population there and the activities of the persephone gold mine located near the reservation. With some reluctance  Du Pre agrees to look into both problems.  But then Dannys body is found in a well  and Du Pre discovers a link between the boys life and what goes on at Fort Belknap. Working with a doctor whos long been concerned about Persephones practices  Du Pre dangerously confronts the indifference and recklessness of the industrial mine.  Perfectly capturing the cadences of Metis life  Peter Bowen beautifully depicts the people and landscape of remote Montana.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45655636574261,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312326149","price":65.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312326142.jpg?v=1781937157","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-stick-game-9780312326142","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}