{"product_id":"the-last-ranger-9780593744161","title":"The Last Ranger","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe River \u003c\/i\u003ereturns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone National Park where a skirmish between a local hunter and a wolf biologist turns violent, and a park ranger, facing his own personal demons, sets out to determine what really happened.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRen is a park ranger, tasked with duties both mundane and thrilling: breaking up fights at campgrounds, saving tourists from moose attacks, and attempting to broker an uneasy peace between the wealthy vacationers who tromp around with cameras and the locals who want to carve out a meaningful living amid this western landscape. When Ren discovers his friend Hilly, a biologist and wolf expert, nearly dead in the steel jaws of a wolf trap, he hopes it's just an accident, but the small red ribbon tied to the stake makes him fairly certain that it wasn't. What begins as an inquiry into a known poacher soon opens into the discovery of a local group of ranchers who have formed an alliance at odds with both the park and with Ren's responsibility to protect it. Rife with surprising humor, populated by a cast of extraordinary characters, each drawn to Yellowstone for their own reasons, Peter Heller once again mines the rich vein where our very human impulses play out against the stunning beauty of the natural world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePETER HELLER is the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Guide, The River, Celine, The Painter, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dog Stars, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich has been published in twenty-two languages. Heller is also the author of four nonfiction books, including \u003ci\u003eKook: What Surfing Taught Me About Love, Life, and Catching the Perfect Wave, \u003c\/i\u003e which was awarded the National Outdoor Book Award. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in poetry and fiction and lives in Denver, Colorado.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Large Print Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615366123794,"sku":"9780593744161","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1b20676a-5a92-4926-8570-abf638a9081f.jpg?v=1766485808","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-last-ranger-9780593744161","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}