Bearskin: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

“Bearskin is visceral, organic, and compelling-filled with sights, smells, and sounds truly observed. It’s a robust debut and a complete showcase of outstanding prose. There have become few first novels when Personally i think compelled to group brilliant passages, but James McLaughlin’s writing got me doing just that.” -C.J. Package, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Disappeared

Grain Moore is merely beginning to think his difficulties are behind him. He’s found a job protecting a remote control forest protect in about Bearskin: A Book Virginian Appalachia where his primary responsibilities include tracking wildlife and refurbishing cabins. It’s effort, and totally solitary-perfect to hide from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed back in Arizona. But when Grain discovers the carcass of the bear wiped out on the lands, the silent solitude he’s therefore desperately sought is certainly suddenly at risk.

More bears are killed in the conserve and Rice’s obsession with getting the poachers escalates, resulting in hostile altercations with the local people and interest from both law and Rice’s companies. Partnering along with his forerunner, a scientist who hopes to keep her research for the protect, Rice puts into motion an idea that could expose the poachers but dangers revealing his own whereabouts to the dangerous people he was running from to begin with.

Wayne McLaughlin expertly brings the wonder and danger of Appalachia alive. The result is an elemental, slow burn of the novel-one that will haunt you longer after you hears the final words.