Hunter's Choice [Paperback]

J. C. Hager (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 15, 2008

"A powerful and intelligent thriller!" - Steve Hamilton, author, Alex McKnight novels. With the sound of snapping pine tops and tortured metal, a deer hunt becomes a rescue mission. Matt Hunter's choices quickly become life-and-death decisions as a barrage of life-changing events thrust him into a fast-paced, page-turning adventure as he fights killer storms, dangerous gangsters, DEA bureaucracy, and love for a seductive woman and pits all his skills and judgment against those who would just as soon see him dead. Tanya crashes into his life on a drug-filled plane, adding a beautiful, mysterious ingredient to a cauldron of action, danger, death, riches, and romance. A Russian crime boss strides onto the scene, alternatively deadly or charming, depending on how his borsch is stirred. The action races across an ice-covered Michigan lake, disrupts Hunter's snow-bound Upper Peninsula cabin, slices through the Gulf Stream on a yacht, and stalks tropical hills.

Editorial Reviews

From the Author

"Hunter's Choice is about finding something valuable. Do you return it or not? If it is valuable only through illegal channels then what? Returning it takes you to gangsters but going to the law can lose you another treasure - a woman you love?"

About the Author

Born and raised in Michigan, John (J. C.)Hager earned a B.A. and M.A. in Biology and Science Education from Western Michigan University, taught high school science,and coached football and wrestling. He retired from IBM after 27 years on quota. He and his wife Ann live in Michigan's Upper Peninsula on the shore of Little Bay de Noc. They have two grown sons. John dilutes his writing time with hunting,fishing, boating, traveling, and providing laughs and lost golf balls at the Gladstone Golf Club.

Product Details

• Paperback: 316 pages
• Publisher: Greenstone Publishing (February 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979754658
• ISBN-13: 978-0979754654
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,607,326 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hunter's Choice - An Outstanding First Effort, March 10, 2008

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Peter T. Olsen "" pto "" - See all my reviews
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For a first effort book, Hunter's Choice by JC Hager kept me spellbound from the time I picked it up until I read the last two pages of acknowledgements. JC Hager has obviously done his homework and weaves detail into a logical thriller from start to finish. His hero is understated with a laugh out loud dry sense of humor. His heroine is sultry and keeps you wanting more. His story is logical and believable but keeps you on edge because you never quite know nor can you anticipate the next turn. I liked it and couldn't put it down. That's saying allot because I'm an avid reader of all the great adventure authors. Hager has quite a career in front of him and I can't wait to see what Matt Hunter gets into next.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Character to be reckoned with, March 2, 2008

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J. Rust (Upper Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hunter's Choice (Paperback)

Matt Hunter is a new character to be reckoned with... A vastly resourceful wilderness native and uncommon mix of clever adversary, tough combatant, tender romantic. Adventure in the northwoods of Upper Michigan to the Florida Keys and beyond. The locales were well-described from the author's experiences. This is not just an "action-adventure" novel for the guys. It is good work by J.C. Hager. Jo Rust

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A master storyteller whose attention to detail insures the reader's rapt attention from beginning to end., April 2, 2008

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hunter's Choice (Paperback)

A good read is defined as a novel you simply can't put down from first page to last. "Hunter's Choice" by J. C. Hager is just such an action/adventure rollercoaster of a suspense thriller account of Matt Hunter, a man who survives killer storms, ruthless gangsters, and a DEA bureaucracy. Then there is Tanya Vega -- a lovely and seductive woman who slams into Matt's life along with a smuggler's plane full of drugs whose owner is a volatile, unpredictable, but always lethal Russian crime boss. This riveting novel is set in one of Michigan's Upper Peninsula ice-covered lakes where Matt's snow-bound cabin is to be found, continues on a 54-foot Hatteras yacht sailing the Gulf Stream, and continues along the Amber Coast hills of the Dominican Republic. Superbly crafted, "Hunter's Choice" documents Hager as a master storyteller whose attention to detail insures the reader's rapt attention from beginning to end.