When three college students hiking in the Appalachians mysteriously vanish, the FBI is called in to investigate.Finding no immediate leads and no indications of a criminal act, the authorities at the Bureau put the case on the back burner.But the father of one of the missing-Edwin Kriess-isn't willing to just let it drop.Kriess is a retired FBI agent, who was also a former member of an elite CIA task force expertly trained in the art of hunting down and retrieving rogue agents.His career burned down after a mission to uncover a Chinese espionage plot resulted in a blood-bath involving civilians. Kriess was quietly sacrificed to extinguish the scandal, and has since lived in semi-exile down in southwestern Virginia.Now he's back in action - if very unofficially - and will do anything in his power to find his daughter.Relying on the specialized tactics and lethal maneuvers from his man-hunting past as an Agency "sweeper," he mounts his own search and investigation.Crossing paths with the Bureau and other government agencies, Kriess becomes targeted for retrieval by one of his own kind.As he tracks through a deadly maze of political scandal, personal revenge, and high-level corruption, Kriess discovers that it's hunting season-on himself, his family, and, ultimately, the United States government.Hunting Season is P. T. Deutermann at the top of his game.Powerful and shocking, filled with exciting scenes and intense action, this brilliantly written novel follows the progress of a man on a mission: to find his daughter and redeem his past.AUTHORBIO: P. T. Deutermann spent twenty-six years in government service before retiring to begin his writing career. He is the author of six previous novels.He lives with his wife in Georgia on their family farm.
Peter T. Deutermann
(P.T. Deutermann)
Peter Deutermann was born in Boston in 1941. His father was in the Navy, so he subsequently lived all over the United States and also in Argentina. He graduated from the naval academy in 1963 and served in the navy for 26 years, rising to the rank of Captain. While in the navy, he published one textbook on naval operations and several professional articles in navy-oriented journals. He held three commands: a Swiftboat in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam, a guided missile destroyer in the Atlantic Fleet, and a destroyer squadron based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. His last tour of duty was as the division director for chemical, biological, and radiological weapons arms control negotiations on the staff of the Joint Chiefs in Washington, DC.
He retired from active duty in 1989 and began his fiction-writing career. He has published fourteen novels since 1992, all with St. Martins Press, including the just-released World War II navy novel, entitled Pacific Glory. He is currently working on his next book, a thriller set at the historic mountain fortress of Masada in Israel.
In addition to a BS in naval engineering, Mr. Deutermann holds an MA in public administration from the University of Washington. He is also a Member of the Royal College of Defence Studies in London. He is married and has two children. Mr. Deutermann and his wife of 42 years live in Rockingham County, in the Piedmont of North Carolina, on their family pony farm.
