Cutdown

By John A. Miller

Book Overview

In this gritty thriller, Vietnam vet-turned-lawyer Claude McCutcheon gets a call from Margaret Tikkanen of the Northwestern Pacific Lumber Company. She gives him a trumped-up story about buying commercial property, and he gets tangled up in a decades-old--and life-threatening--conspiracy. Author John A. Miller won the 1996 California Book Award for First Published Work of Fiction for Cutdown, his debut novel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451672039
• ISBN13: 9781451672039
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Atria Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A rough - gem of a first novel.

John A. Miller has created a very interesting character in Claude McCutcheon, the almost anti-hero of Cutdown.I liked the characters in the book and the prerequisite violent scenes were different in that Claude is not the typical "superhero" type who never bleeds. The violence is at times excessive, but Miller also makes Claude a likeable guy you wouldn't mind having a beer with.The conclusion is very satisfying and true to the development of the plot.This novel is a promising start to what I hope will be an extended series.Brian Sage (sagebrian@hotmail.com),Woodstock,Ontario,Canada.