Pick up this autographed copy of "The Poacher's Son" and enjoy the crime novel set in the wilds of Maine and done from the perspective of Maine Game Warden Mike Bowdith. Written by Paul Doiron, Editor Emeritus of Downeast Magazine, this novel won the Barry Award and the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel. PopMatters named it to its Best Fiction of 2010 list. Since this originating novel, 13 additional novels have been published in the Mike Bowdith series, with the 13th scheduled for release in 2023.

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"The Poacher's Son" is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive -- his own father.

Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father Jack, a hard drinking womanizer who makes his living poaching illegal game. An even more frightening call comes the next morning from the police: they are searching for the man who killed a beloved local cop the night before -- and his father is their prime suspect. Jack has escaped from police custody, and only Mike believes that his tormented father might not be guilty.

Now, alienated from the woman he loves, and shunned by colleagues who have no sympathy for the suspected cop-killer, Mike must come to terms with his haunted past. He knows firsthand Jack's brutality, but is the man capable of murder? Desperate and alone, he strikes up an uneasy alliance with a retired warden pilot, and together the two men journey deep into the Maine wilderness in search of a runaway fugitive. The only way for Mike to save his father is to find the real killer -- which could mean putting everyone he loves in the line of fire.