Killing the Hunt

'Charlie had become instrumental in ruining his life, including the stripping away of his fondest memories, which in turn had been so life-sustaining to him. Now he had either to face suicide because nothing was left or defend himself against the apparent involvement of Charlie by killing him...He would kill Charlie or die trying.' On a forest farm in Vermont lives John Deere, whose wife, the nurturer of the farm, has died, leaving him depressed and unsure of what to do. Faced with the possibility of losing his farm, he becomes obsessed with killing that which has claimed its dominance over the farm, an abnormally large, one-eyed buck he has named Charlie. As Charlie becomes John's adversary, John begins walking the fine line between sanity and insanity while struggling with his quickly deteriorating health and coming to grips with the reality of his life. But not even his newfound interest in Maggie, a nurse, can distract him from his final missiona "eliminating Charlie. For John, it is survival, nothing more than the law of naturea "or so it seems. A fascinating journey into the disturbed mind of a man falling apart, Killing the Hunt is a captivating legend soon to be the obsession of every reader."