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septemberNow in Paperback!A historical mystery set in 1913,featuring game warden Lute Bapcat,a violent miners’ strike, and deadlysabotage“Joseph Heywood has long been a red-blooded Americanoriginal and an author worth reading. With Red Jacket—acolorful and sprawling new novel with a terrific newprotagonist named Lute Bapcat—he raises the bar tosoaring new heights.”—C.J. Box, New York Times bestselling author ofForce of NatureRed JacketA Lute Bapcat MysteryJoseph Heywood978-0-7627-8859-0 ■ September 2013$16.95 US/$18.95 CAN ■ US, Canada, open marketPaper ■ 5 1 ⁄2 x 8 ■ 432 pp ■ 24/CTNPrevious Edition: Cloth 09/2012; 978-0-7627-8253-6Lyons PressMYSTERY“In 1913, Theodore Roosevelt recruits former Rough RiderLute Bapcat to become a game warden on Michigan’sUpper Peninsula in Heywood’s absorbing first in a newseries. Outsized characters, both real (athlete George Gippbefore his Notre Dame fame; union organizer Mother Jones)and fictional (randy businesswoman Jaquelle Frei; Lute’sRussian companion, Pinkhus Sergeyevich Zakov), pepperthe narrative.”—Publishers WeeklyJoseph Heywood takes readers to an era when people had to be as hard as the lives they lived. Meet Lute Bapcat, orphan,loner, former cowboy, Rough Rider, beaver trapper who becomes one of Michigan’s first civil service game wardens. Histerritory: The Keweenaw Peninsula. Lute confronts an explosive, bloody labor strike; a siege-like sabotage, including a suddenrash of decapitated, spoiled deer; poisoned trout streams and well water; and unusual deforestation—all apparently designedby mine owners to deny nature’s bounty to the strikers. The violence culminates when a man yells fire in a small building and73 people are crushed or die of suffocation, the majority of them the children and wives of striking miners at the hall for aChristmas party.Even with good people dying, the Michigan governor refuses to take sides. Should Lute Bapcat?12Joseph Heywood is the author of The Snowfly (Lyons), Covered Waters (Lyons), The Berkut, Taxi Dancer,The Domino Conspiracy—and the nine novels comprising the Woods Cop Mystery Series. Heywood livesin Portage, Michigan. For more on Joseph Heywood and the Woods Cop Mysteries, visit the author’s websiteat josephheywood.com.