- Gebundene Ausgabe: 285 Seiten
- Verlag: G K Hall & Co; Auflage: Lrg (Juli 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0783882157
- ISBN-13: 978-0783882154
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 15,7 x 3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
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Gabriel Du Pre (introduced in Bowen's two earlier books, Coyote Wind and Specimen Song) is fiddling for a crowd of dancers in the Toussaint Bar when strange news arrives: someone has cut the fences of several Montana ranchers and shot their cattle. Environmental protesters are suspected. But when the protesters are shot and burned in their cars, Du Pre must look for answers -- hindered by the FBI and by a winter storm that buries evidence and nearly buries him as well. Mingling Indian lore, humor, and a feel for the West, Wolf, No Wolf is a potential crime classic.
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In the remote regions of Montana, the locals deeply resent environmental activists, whom they disparagingly refer to as "bunny-huggers." When two activists suspected of cutting fences and shooting cattle are found murdered, Gabe Du Pre, a French Indian cattle inspector by trade, agrees to work with the local sheriff and the FBI as a deputy, if only to avoid an all-out war between the locals and the outsiders. The killings quickly become a cause celebre among environmentalists, which draws hordes of tenderfoots to the wilderness. That, in turn, creates a life-threatening situation when an Alberta Clipper weather front bears down on the region. Gabe, who fears the killer may be a friend of his, is left to sort out the mess, all the while struggling with his own sense of community and loyalty. The third Du Premystery is an entertaining blend of local atmosphere, humor, and terror. Du Premay also possess the most unique narrative patois in the genre: "You betcha it's plen' good stuff, you bet, yes?" Wes Lukowsky
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I've worked hard to like Peter Bowen's Gabriel Du Pre novels, and I'm going to read *Notches* before I give up, but it's an uphill battle, and the ethical stance in *Wolf, No Wolf* is a real show-stopper for me. Give me Anna Pigeon's respect for the wild over Du Pre's self-serving morality any time.
Bowen's Du Pre takes the position that environmentalists are worthless meddling troublemakers, but that doesn't give us good ole boys the right to kill them. In the course of argument, he lumps together fads of the environmental chic (you know; the folks who drive around Boulder in gas-guzzling SUVs with bumper stickers that say "Ban fossil fuels") and the attempts to preserve and restore the American wild. If the darn ranchers had just beat up the bunny huggers, 'stead of shootin' them, Du Pre would be just fine with it. Murder's wrong, of course.
I swallowed all that for the sake of the plot, and even put up with Du Pre's "real" Indian shaman who, unlike the drunken fake the enviro-tourists fall in with, is just fine with killing off the wolves. I even accepted the notion that the ranch family with acreage the size of Connecticut was involved in the crime from their sense of local philanthropy. I accepted as a thought experiment the idea that the local kid who lures the victims into a trap by pretending to support their causes is just a bit misguided. And that the locals who unanimously want to kill the wolves are perfectly reasonable people trying to protect their neighborhood.
But the last four pages iced it. In Bowen's "meti" world, apparently it's not Ok to kill Fish and Game folks with high-powered rifles, or to blow up bunny huggers, or even to shoot men who confess to those crimes and pull guns on you. It's a cause of great soul-searching and mystic fiddling when we have to shoot down a neighbor who goes a bit too far and takes off the head of a perfectly good FBI agent we like even though she isn't one of us. But illegal slaughter of introduced wolves? That's a party where we all can have some fun. Contemptible.
I've put up with three novels' worth of Bowen's pseudo-Meti dialect writing, which amounts to making everyone sound mildy retarded and throwing in a lot of extra "me"'s and "you"'s (As in "Me, I not like the way you thinking, you"). I'm still waiting to see a plot which doesn't move at the slouching pace of a cartoon hillbilly with hookworm. And the glib assertion of Benetsee's shamanic powers smacks a bit too much of jock soap opera for my taste.
The irony of Bowen's popularity is that the people who fall for this stuff are the clueless Easterners Du Pre loathes, people who admire the "manliness" of guys who like to pit dogs, break horses, and fight cocks.
Three books, and I hoped I didn't get it. When Gabriel gathers up his wolf traps, I get it. *Notches.* But it better be good. Real good.
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This book was a real deception! If you are not from Montana, live in a city and are interested in wolves, then pass your way stranger, according to the author you are not worth anything, unless you shoot these animals, are a vietnam vet and understand or speak the local patois. And if you are involved in a federal activity... God bless you.... Certainly my first and last Gabriel Du Pré mystery...
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If you like Dick Francis, you'll love Peter Bowen. Gabriel Du Pre, a Montana Metis, is more woodswise than Nevada Barr's Anna Pigeon, tougher than sun-shrunk rawhide, and thoroughly believable. Peter Bowen has captured the fiery independence of the REAL rural west
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