Aaand the contest begins!

To recap from the February Roadhouse Report: A fan contest is announced! Alert readers will have noticed that I’m re-running “The History of Kate Shugak in 22 Objects” series here on stabenow.com. I’ve even managed to keep all the original comments. Some are pretty funny and all of them are fun. Scroll down to read them…

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from the 20th Kate Shugak novel

Tuesday, July 10th Kushtaka Tyler Mack was an eighteen-year old stick of post-adolescent dynamite just waiting for the right match.  He was smart in all the wrong ways, using his intelligence chiefly to conspire with Boris Balluta, his best friend and coconspirator since childhood, on ways and means to avoid manual labor. Of medium height,…

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“The mountain’s out.” Which mountain? Well, obviously, you don’t live here.

ON A SUNNY DAY in southcentral Alaska, an official indicator of just how nice a day it is is, “The mountain’s out.” Which mountain? Well, obviously, you don’t live here. “The mountain” is of course, Denali, all 20,320 feet of it. A hundred miles from Anchorage, it looms up substantially on the northern horizon nonetheless.…

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from the 19th Kate Shugak novel

On the other side of the door, the two men in the almost identical uniforms exchanged a long, expressionless stare. Finally Jim said in a voice entirely without inflection, “Liam,” and nodded at a chair. “Have a seat.” “Thanks, Jim.” Campbell unzipped the heavy blue jacket and sat down. There was silence. “How long you…

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The problem is that the maquis, both those of conviction and those of convenience, each have their own agendas…

Ike’s personal PI, Captain Billy Boyle, is shipped first to Crete, there to recover an SOE agent so as to airfreight them both into southern France, with help from the Allies (although DeGaulle will never let it be said that France didn’t liberate itself, oh no). There they are to hook up with the OSS…

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