"They were two men tall. Tall as the sky, we used to say." Old Lucy remembers the days before logging invaded her world, before the tall creatures disappeared. "Then," she says, "one came back. He was young and full grown."
In Ocahlo County, Montana, Floyd Jefferson is elected sheriff. The powerful lumberman Louis Pollard, angered, promises trouble. And other trouble follows: a mysterious death, a disappearance, logging equipment destroyed on and on. On scant evidence Floyd follows a hunch, finding what he hopes not to find: that a mythical forest giant is no myth, and that it seems to threaten almost everything.
In prose both spare and evocative, Rich Linder creates a time, a place, and characters who linger in the reader's mind. He tells a story that is more true than the truths that sometimes camouflage our fears and deepest dreams.
Review: "A wonderful combination of myth and mystery.... Linder taps into atavistic human fears and explores the headwaters of legend with a deft and knowing hand. A terrific debut."
-T. Jefferson Parker, author of Silent Joe, Red Light, and The Blue Hour
Bio: RICH LINDER went to school in Fresno, Santa Barbara and San Francisco, then taught English at Orange County College in Costa Mesa. He has published poems and short stories. Two Men Tall is his first novel. He lives with his wife in Southern California, and has never seen Bigfoot.
