Fortress of Bears
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The search for missing young women leads U.S. Marshals Arliss Cutter and Lola Teariki to an isolated Alaskan island where bears outnumber people 3 to 1—but the most dangerous predators walk on two legs—in New York Times bestselling author and former U.S. Marshal Marc Cameron’s chilling new wilderness thriller for fans of Paul Doiron, CJ Box, Craig Johnson, and William Kent Krueger.
With missing persons officially outside the purview of Deputy U.S. Marshal Arliss Cutter and his partner Lola Teariki, Lola has set up a task force of their own. Anything to crack the disturbing cases of women who disappeared into an unknown hell and help the few who escaped it—branded, terrified, and hunted. When a Russian girl working tourist season in Juneau vanishes, the lead takes the Branded Task Force to Alaska’s ABC Islands, home to the largest density of brown bears in the world. But nine hundred pounds of tooth, claw, and fury have nothing on what Cutter and Lola are about to face.
In Southeast Alaska, the Hoffman family oversees a tiny village. They comprise its only law enforcement, run a remote fishing lodge and cabins, and welcome visitors with an unnervingly friendly smile. Cutter and Lola’s sense that something is off is confirmed when the few locals who dare to speak share rumors that the Hoffman’s lodge hides sinister secrets. To unearth them and save the missing women, Cutter and Lola must battle insidious smalltown corruption, agency rivalries, ravenous wilderness predators, and the most depraved human evil either of them has ever seen.
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About the author
Marc Cameron is a former U.S. Marshal and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, award-winning author of the Arliss Cutter novels, the Jericho Quinn series, and the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan Sr. books, starting with Power and Empire. A Texas native who now lives in Alaska, his law enforcement career spanned over three decades, beginning as a uniformed police officer, mounted (horse patrol) officer, and detective before accepting a position with the United States Marshals Service. In that role he served as a Deputy, Fugitive Task Force Commander, Supervisory Deputy, Senior Inspector, and Chief. His assignments have taken him from rural Alaska to Manhattan, from Canada to Mexico and points in between. A second-degree black belt in jujitsu, he often teaches defensive tactics to other law enforcement agencies and civilian groups. Cameron presently lives in Alaska with his wife and his BMW motorcycle. Visit him online at MarcCameronBooks.com.
