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Title: Resolution: Huck Finnâs Greatest Adventure
Author: Andrew Joyce
Published: April 13th, 2016
Publisher: William Birch & Assoc.
Genre: Historical Fiction/Adventure
Synopsis:
It is 1896 in the Yukon Territory, Canada. The largest gold strike in the annals of human history has just been made; however, word of the discovery will not reach the outside world for another year.
By happenstance, a fifty-nine-year-old Huck Finn and his lady friend, Molly Lee, are on hand, but they are not interested in gold. They have come to that neck of the woods seeking adventure.
When disaster strikes, they volunteer to save the day by making an arduous six-hundred-mile journey by dog sled in the depths of a Yukon winter. They race against time, nature, and man. With the temperature hovering around seventy degrees below zero, they must fight every day if they are to live to see the next.
On the frozen trail, they are put upon by murderers, hungry wolves, and hostile Indians, but those adversaries have nothing over the weather. At seventy below, your spit freezes a foot from your face. Your cheeks burnâyour skin turns purple and black as it dies from the cold. You are in constant danger of losing fingers and toes to frostbite.
They cannot stop or turn back. They can only go on. Lives hang in the balanceâincluding theirs.
Excerpt:
Huck, tiring of the conversation, picked up the bottle and filled his and Mollyâs glasses. Jassâ was still full. âAlright, Mister Knight, how do you plan on doing it? Take us out back and shoot us?"
âI must say you are taking this like a gentleman. No crying or begging for mercy?â
âWould I get any?â
âAny what?â
âMercy.â
âMost likely not.â
Huck looked at Molly and nodded.
She stood with such force that she knocked her chair backwards and it started to fall. She had her gun out and in her hand before the chair hit the floor. The scraping noise of the chair as Molly stood turned the menâs attention from the gold to the table. It was the last act of their lives. Molly had a bullet into each one of them before they knew they were dead.
About the Author:
Andrew Joyce left high school at seventeen to hitchhike throughout the US, Canada, and Mexico. He wouldnât return from his journey until decades later when he decided to become a writer. Joyce has written four books, including a two-volume collection of one hundred and forty short stories comprised of his hitching adventures called BEDTIME STORIES FOR GROWN-UPS (as yet unpublished), and his latest novel, RESOLUTION. He now lives aboard a boat in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with his dog, Danny, where he is busy working on his next book, YELLOW HAIR.
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