THE SHADOW OF OWLS

THE SHADOW OF OWLS is a literary thriller set in the Idaho Panhandle during a freezing early winter in the year 2000. Kate DeShazer (who goes by Kit) is a biologist pursuing a major research project that puts her on a collision course with government and petroleum industry plans to run a sea-floor pipeline with tie-ins to the existing Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Kit is kidnapped, and her husband, a logger, is swept into a search for her that takes him into the world of white supremacists. While it has shades of Graham Greene-like suspense, the book is at its heart an exploration of a loving relationship put under extreme duress, and the hard test under such circumstances to hold on to one's principles.

John Keeble has been called one of the major writers of the Pacific Northwest. About his early novel, the national bestseller YELLOWFISH (1980), Raymond Carver said, "YELLOWFISH is, without qualification or hedging, a great work of imaginative literature... This is the one."