William Kent Krueger is an American crime novelist, born in Wyoming in 1950 and long settled in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His Cork O'Connor series follows a former sheriff of mixed Ojibwe and Irish descent through the small towns and reservation country of northern Minnesota. It began with Iron Lake (1998), which won the Anthony and Barry awards for best first novel, and has run to twenty books, most recently Spirit Crossing. Blood Hollow and Mercy Falls each took the Anthony Award for Best Novel....
Desolation Mountain
Desolation Mountain
Synopsis
Stephen O'Connor has visions, and the one that will not leave him is of a great bird shot out of the sky and a terrible sense of loss. Then a private plane carrying a United States senator and her family comes down on Desolation Mountain, on the edge of the Iron Lake Reservation.
Stephen and his father Cork reach the wreck before the federal teams do. What follows is not an investigation but a lockout — evidence removed, witnesses silenced, first responders vanishing — and the arrival of Bo Thorson, a private security consultant working for clients he will not name.
Desolation Mountain is the seventeenth Cork O'Connor novel, and the most conspiratorial: a book about what happens when the machinery of the state decides a crash was an accident before anyone has looked at it.
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Characters
Cork O'ConnorProtagonist
Investigating a plane crash the government would prefer went unexamined.
Stephen O'ConnorProtagonist
Cork's son, whose visions foreshadow the crash.
Bo ThorsonSupporting
A private security consultant investigating the crash for undisclosed clients.
Henry MelouxSupporting
Ojibwe medicine man, guiding Stephen through his visions.
