Resolution:
Huck Finn's Greatest Adventure
By
Andrew Joyce
Genre:
Historical
Fiction/Action Adventure
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.
Someone
should have warned them, “Be careful what you wish for.”
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 burn—your skin turns purple and black as it dies from the
cold. You are in constant danger of losing fingers and toes to
frostbite.
It
is into this world that Huck and Molly race.
They
cannot stop. They cannot turn back. They can only go on. Lives hang
in the balance—including theirs.
My Review:
Andrew
Joyce is a prolific writer. He has spun a story around classic
characters Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, who we are all familiar with,
but Joyce portrays them as mature men who are still young at heart.
They leap at the chance of hunting down a killer and fighting
treacherous weather in Alaska. There is nothing corny about these
two. There is humor, honesty, and loyalty melting from each page.
This book deserves 5 stars.
Author
Bio
Andrew
Joyce left high school at seventeen to hitchhike throughout the US,
Canada, and Mexico. He wouldn’t 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BEDTIME STORIES FOR GROWN-UPS (as yet unpublished), and his latest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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