Joe Gores: Wolf Time (UK 2015)

From the Publisher:
Hollis Fletcher has no idea why someone has tried to kill him. Fletcher is a professional hunter with years of tracking experience, and he's going to find the man who left him for dead in the frozen Minnesota woods, and take vengeance. Soon he discovers he is after big game: someone in the entourage of Fletcher's boyhood friend, Gary Westergard - candidate for the presidency - pulled the trigger, and his own daughter is a key figure in the campaign. Hollis Fletcher is a threat to someone, someone who has taken steps to remove the problem. In failing, they've only made it worse.

The hunt has begun. Fletcher is skilled, patient and deadly - and his target never escapes...

Joe Gores: Wolf Time. Orion Books / The Murder Room, ISBN: 9781471917592 (February, 2015), eBook, 1.99 MB (240 p.),£4.99.

Joe Gores: Wolf Time (USA 1990)

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"A FIRST-CLASS THRILLER; A FINE, SUSPENSEFUL, SURPRISING STORY." -- The Los Angeles Times
Hollis Fletcher had no idea of why someone had tried to kill him. The only thing he could be certain of was that the would-be murderer was an amateur. Fletcher wasn't; a professional hunter with years of tracking experience, he was going to find the man who had left him for dead in the frozen, Minnesota woods. And when he did, he would have his vengeance.

Too soon he discovers that he is after the biggest game he's ever tracked. Someone in the entourage of Fletcher's boyhood friend, Gary Westergard -- candidate for the presidency -- pulled the trigger. And his own daughter was a key figure in the campaign. Westergard, or a person close to him, saw Hollis Fletcher as a threat and had taken steps to remove the problem. In failing, they had created a more serious difficulty. Now it was the Moon of the Wolf, the time of the hunter. And the hunt had begun. Fletcher didn't know who would finally be lined up in his sights. But he was skilled, patient and deadly. And his target never escaped.

Mixing present politics with dark secrets, Joe Gores "has written a top-notch thriller... a well-crafted read up to the shocking climax and chilling final twist." -- Publishers Weekly

Joe Gores: Wolf Time. Someone had left Hollis Fletcher for dead, but he was wrong... dead wrong! Zebra Books, ISBN: 0821730959 (August, 1990), 413 p., $4.50.

Joe Gores: Wolf Time (USA 1989)

From the Publisher:
From the author of Hammett, a story of deadly violence that pits one man's race for the presidency against another man's search for himself -- and for his would-be killer.

Hollis Fletcher is a hunter of animals who becomes obsessed with hunting a man -- the one who shot him and left him for dead in northern Minnesota. At the same time, his boyhood friend Garrett Westergard begins his campaign for president, aided by Fletcher's daughter, Nicole.

Are the "accident" and the campaign related? Crippled both psychologically and physically, Fletcher turns to the memory of Charlie Seven Bears, Indian mentor of his youth, to aid him in his hunt. Moving along the trail as he would along an animal's, Fletcher finds his search intertwined with Westergard's campaign, and uncovers a forty-year-old secret that threatens to destroy not only Westergard but himself as well.

As Fletcher digs, he sees for himself the price the tension and corruption of the campaign have exacted on his daughter, and on her husband as well. Ultimately, it is Old Charlie's lessons in the ancient ritual of the hunt that lead Fletcher to discover his attacker's identity -- and force him to bear the weight of one man's secret fear.

Fresh, exciting, and packed with the extraordinary detail of the hunt, Wolf Time will leave you breathless, right to the shocking conclusion.

Joe Gores lives near San Francisco with his wife, Dori. He is the author of numerous novels, including Dead Skip, Final Notice, Interface, Hammett, and Come Morning, as well as short stories, screenplays, and teleplays. He has won Japan's prestigious Maltese Falcon Award, as well as Edgars in three different categories.

Jacket design by Walter Harper

Joe Gores: Wolf Time. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399134271 (April, 1989), 319 p., $18.95.