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The Big Both Ways
Alaska Northwest Books
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Slip Wilson is just trying to find work, food and a little justice when he hooks up with a bottle-blonde, Ellie Hobbes, who drags him into her edgy, ragtag life. At the last minute, Ellie, a notorious “red” union organizer who faces mounting problems with antiunion forces, and her young niece hop aboard the same rickety boat Slip is escaping on that's traveling from Seattle to Juneau. The odd trio barely catches a breath as weather, hunger, a Seattle homicide detective and a revenge-seeking gang of thugs hound them all the way up the Inside Passage. Ellie isn't big on explanations, so Slip isn't sure until nearly the end of their journey if she's a heroine or a scoundrel.

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Cover of Cold Water Burning The Angels will Not Care - covers of the hardbound and paperback editions, link to more info.
     
Death and the Language of Happiness - covers of the hardbound and paperback editions, link to more info. The Music of What Happens - covers of the hardbound and paperback editions, link to more info.
     
The Curious Eat Themselves - covers of the hardbound and paperback editions, link to more info. The Woman Who Married a Bear - covers of the hardbound and paperback editions, link to more info.
John Straley's books have also been published in Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Brazil, Italy, and Spain.