Incident at Big Sky: The Inside Story of the Search for Two Savage Killers in Montana
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Incident at Big Sky: The Inside Story of the Search for Two Savage Killers in Montana
<DIV><B>Edgar Award Finalist: The thrilling true story of the abduction of world-class biathlete Kari Swenson and the five-month manhunt to bring her tormentors to justice.</B><BR /> <BR /> Former rodeo cowboy Johnny France had been sheriff of Madison County, Montana, for three years when Kari Swenson, a Bozeman resident training for the World Biathlon Championship, went missing near Big Sky Resort in July 1984. Her friends feared that Kari had been attacked by a grizzly bear, but the truth was far scarier: She'd been kidnapped at gunpoint by father-and-son survivalists Don and Dan Nichols. The pair had been living in the wilderness off and on for years and hoped to make Kari a “mountain woman" and Dan's bride. But the plan went horribly wrong from the start, and after a deadly firefight with rescuers, the kidnappers vanished into the rugged terrain of the Spanish Peaks.<BR /> <BR /> As Montana's summer froze into brutal winter blizzards, SWAT teams, forest rangers, and antiterrorist units searched the backcountry but sighted the mountain men only once. Then came the call about a strange campfire on a slope above the Madison River. Sheriff France decided to go into the forest to face the fugitives-alone. The resulting showdown made him “perhaps the most famous Western sheriff since Wyatt Earp . . . a modern legend" (<I>Chicago Tribune</I>)<I>.</I><BR /> <BR /><I>Incident at Big Sky</I> is the “exciting," edge-of-your-seat account of a shocking crime that made headlines around the world (<I>The New York Times Book Review</I>). In a voice as distinctive and compelling as the Montana landscape, France takes readers on a high-stakes adventure so bizarre and unforgettable it could only be true.<BR /> </DIV>