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Put on your life jacket, grab a paddle and enjoy the trip. --Tony Knowles, former Governor of Alaska They had been friends who fought side by side for better things. Now both were running from crimes neither could have imagined of themselves . . . On a remote Alaskan island, Rinn van Ness commits a minor felony. His former lover is arrested for the crime--and a murder someone tried to pin on him. Out on bail, Kit Olinsky fights a scorched-earth battle in the state legislature to save the Alaska she loves. She can only win if she betrays her friend Dan Wakefield, a Tlingit fighting desperately for what was promised to his people a generation ago. In the back rooms of the legislature, Senator Billy Macon manipulates Alaska's grimy politics with vindictive mastery in his drive to the governor's mansion. Like a lone wolf, Rinn slips out of the forest to protect Kit, never suspecting that he has more at stake than a lonely prison cell.

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From the very first page the reader is captured by a whitewater journey in a world of the beauty, power and danger of nature in Alaska, the Great Land. . . We learn this same land is the foundation of a timeless Native culture struggling to survive in a changing modern world. The rapids will take you to knowing the lives of personal bonding and intense love that leads to mystery, a thriller, and murder as well as the sleazy world of politics as it feeds on the lust for power, ego, and money. . . Put on your life jacket, grab a paddle and enjoy the trip. --Tony Knowles, former Governor of Alaska Set against the rugged coastal backdrop of Southeast Alaska, Rinn's Crossing is a high-speed immersion into the perilous depths of our state's politics, and the skullduggery, villains, and hard-working heroes hidden in the shadows of our mountains and frontier mystique. --Seth Kantner, bestselling author of Ordinary Wolves Complex, riveting and right out of the headlines. Heath, who paid his dues with years in Alaska, nails Alaska's Zeitgeist. --Kim Elton, Alaska State Senator and Director of Alaska Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior The political machinations are as suspenseful as the murder inquiry. . . fans of [Paul] Doiron's Mike Bowditch series will be intrigued. --Publisher's Weekly (March 2020) It's tough not to devour this book in one sitting. Heath's plotting is taut and propulsive, and the pages seem to fly through your hands. . . It's impossible to emerge from Rinn's Crossing without a healthy respect for both the author's great talent and the history and landscape of Alaska. --Red City Review (5-star review) Rinn's Crossing. . . has a powerful storyline that will grip your attention from the beginning. . . The conflict and suspense are brilliantly placed and the twists and turns powerfully executed. . . The whole novel will provoke many moral questions regarding conserving nature or the culture of a people. The ending was exceptional and will bring a tear to your eye. --Readers Review (5-star review) [F]ast-paced action and intrigue for a thriller that educates on many unexpected levels and remains vivid and engrossing up to its heartfelt conclusion. . . Thriller readers and anyone interested in. . . Alaskan Native struggles. . . will find Rinn's Crossing thoroughly absorbing and hard to put down. --Donovan Literary Services A taut narrative that will keep you turning the pages long after midnight, Rinn's Crossing deftly portrays how back-room deals are brokered in Alaska's complex political landscape. This book should be on every environmentalists' bookshelf, right next to The Golden Spruce and The Monkey Wrench Gang. --Dale Brandenburger, author of Grizzly Trade

From the very first page the reader is captured by a whitewater journey in a world of the beauty, power and danger of nature in Alaska, the Great Land. . . We learn this same land is the foundation of a timeless Native culture struggling to survive in a changing modern world. The rapids will take you to knowing the lives of personal bonding and intense love that leads to mystery, a thriller, and murder as well as the sleazy world of politics as it feeds on the lust for power, ego, and money. . . Put on your life jacket, grab a paddle and enjoy the trip. --Tony Knowles, former Governor of Alaska ... remains vivid and engrossing up to its heartfelt conclusion. --Midwest Book Review A thrilling, engrossing work of serpentine intrigue and crisp characterization with a conservationist conscience. --Kirkus starred review Set against the rugged coastal backdrop of Southeast Alaska, Rinn's Crossing is a high-speed immersion into the perilous depths of our state's politics, and the skullduggery, villains, and hard-working heroes hidden in the shadows of our mountains and frontier mystique. --Seth Kantner, bestselling author of Ordinary Wolves Complex, riveting and right out of the headlines. Heath, who paid his dues with years in Alaska, nails Alaska's Zeitgeist. --Kim Elton, Alaska State Senator and Director of Alaska Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior The political machinations are as suspenseful as the murder inquiry. . . fans of [Paul] Doiron's Mike Bowditch series will be intrigued. --Publisher's Weekly (March 2020) It's tough not to devour this book in one sitting. Heath's plotting is taut and propulsive, and the pages seem to fly through your hands. . . It's impossible to emerge from Rinn's Crossing without a healthy respect for both the author's great talent and the history and landscape of Alaska. --Red City Review (5-star review) Rinn's Crossing. . . has a powerful storyline that will grip your attention from the beginning. . . The conflict and suspense are brilliantly placed and the twists and turns powerfully executed. . . The whole novel will provoke many moral questions regarding conserving nature or the culture of a people. The ending was exceptional and will bring a tear to your eye. --Readers Review (5-star review) [F]ast-paced action and intrigue for a thriller that educates on many unexpected levels and remains vivid and engrossing up to its heartfelt conclusion. . . Thriller readers and anyone interested in. . . Alaskan Native struggles. . . will find Rinn's Crossing thoroughly absorbing and hard to put down. --Donovan Literary Services A taut narrative that will keep you turning the pages long after midnight, Rinn's Crossing deftly portrays how back-room deals are brokered in Alaska's complex political landscape. This book should be on every environmentalists' bookshelf, right next to The Golden Spruce and The Monkey Wrench Gang. --Dale Brandenburger, author of Grizzly Trade

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In his teens, Russell Heath hitchhiked to Alaska and lived in a cabin on the banks of the Tanana River; in his twenties, he lived in Italy and then traveled overland across the Sahara, through the jungles and over the savannas of Africa and into southern Asia; in his thirties, he sailed alone around the world in a 25 foot wooden boat; in his forties, he wrote novels; and in his fifties he bicycled the spine of the Rockies from Alaska to Mexico. He's worked on the Alaska Pipeline, as an environmental lobbyist in the Alaska Legislature, and run a storied environmental organization fighting to protect Alaska's coastal rainforests. Several years ago, he moved to New York City to dig deep into leadership development and coaching. He now lives in a cabin on the coast of Maine coaching business and non-profit leaders intent on making big things happen in the world.

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