Blue Wolf in Green Fire

Joseph Heywood
Lyons Press (2005)
ISBN 1592286526
Reviewed by Sondra Fowler for Reader Views (7/06)

Grady Service, a detective for the Department of Natural Resources in Michigan’s Upper-Peninsula, is dependable, daring, creative and a bit of a lone wolf himself yet behaves as a young pup when in the company of his much younger Girlfriend Maridly Nantz. While Maridly is away dealing with her own DNR pursuits Grady is pulled into explosions, wolf killings, commercial poaching and governmental red tape just before hunting season starts. Grady must use all of his resources to bring the killer to justice, make some sense of the bombing at a federal wolf research lab and help save a blue wolf.

There is sex, guns, intrigue and the occasional bear, what more can you want?
I really enjoyed this book. There were many characters and each one was colorful and believable. Heywood created a wonderful natural setting for the story to thrive in.  I loved the Amish/ Mennonite skirmish. That and many other events made such a bevy of little emergencies that you could feel harrowed energy in the character of Service. It all goes together seamlessly. I had never read anything that took this path before. It was interesting to see inside the DNR’s workings and the lives of Conservation Officers.  Living in Indiana near many DNR areas I see many Conservation Officers but never thought about the plights of hunting season or illegal activities in those areas.  This book goes beyond hunting and hiking. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good story.

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