About the Author:
An international PR firm admired Don McNair’s trade magazine editing skills, and recruited him to solve client communications problems. His resulting programs won three top regional awards in six years, plus the nation’s premier PR prize; the Public Relations Society of America’s Silver Anvil. He launched McNair Marketing Communications, and for 25 years used his well-proven abilities to research and place accurate and clearly-written articles for national clients. He also wrote three non-fiction books. But his first love was writing fiction. He recalled a frontier novel that greatly impressed him in High School, and decided to write its equal. The result was The Long Hunter, a coming-of-age story to be published by Medallion Press in June, 2006.An early reviewer said the story “gives real insight into another time and place, into what growing up can mean when options are slim and every lesson learned the potential difference between life and death.” That recognition pleases McNair. “ It’s my career’s highest award,” he says.
From the Inside Flap:
Matt was only a boy when Indians killed his parents and kidnapped his three-year-old sister. Blaming himself for the tragedy, Matt sets out on a journey of the heart to find little Mandy. He doesn’t get far, however, before he’s “bound” to a cruel and brutal inn keeper. Sick and barely alive, he’s rescued by a kindly old man who takes him in and teaches him the rudiments of survival in the wilderness. But Matt’s time with Noah is too short-lived. When the vengeful inn keeper guns Noah down, Matt commits murder as well. On the run now, and still seeking his sister, Matt heads into Can-tuc-kee and the Cherokee Indian Territory. His plan, as a long hunter, is to amass enough skins to buy some land and make a home for him and Mandy. Once again, however, Matt’s plans go awry.Captured by Indians, the young man once again finds himself “bound”. He watches his best friend die a hideous death at the stake. And he learns a great deal more about survival. Escaping the Indians at last, he helps fellow Virginians settle the rugged, majestic land he has come to love. Ultimately, he learns what “home” really is ... and where it resides.
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