Fire and Ice (1998) (edit title/settings)

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• Liam Campbell: Alaska State Trooper
• Wyanet Chouinard: Liam's ex-lover and pilot.
• Gary Gruber: Manager of the airport in Newenham, Alaska.
• Jim Earl: Mayor of Newenham.
• Linda Billington aka Bill: Owner of Bill's the local watering hole and Alaska state magistrate.
• Moses Alakuyak: Shaman and Liam's Tai Chi master.
• Tim Gosuk: Wy's adopted son.
• Bob DeCreft: Wy's spotter.
• Laura Nanalook: Bob DeCreft's roommate.
• Charlene Taylor: Alaska State Fish and Game Trooper.
• Jimmy Barnes: Newenham harbormaster.
• Joe Gould: Ambulance driver.
• Richard Gilbert: Newenham Post Master and pastor of the Trinity Born Again Unto Christ chapel.
• Becky Gilbert: Richard Gilbert's wife.
• Rose Horner: Liam's mother in law.
• Alfred Horner: Liam's father in law.
• Colonel Charles Campbell: Liam's father, currently living in Florida.
• Cecil Wolfe: Herring boat Captian, Wy's boss and all around nasty guy.

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• “All history is personal”

  Moses Alakuyak

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• There was nothing of either fire or ice in it; only a tepid warmth, like lukewarm water that when you first stepped in felt comfortable to the skin, but if you stayed in too long would slowly sap the life from mind and body, leaving you numb, spent, incapable even of the few strokes necessary to keep your head above water.

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• you’re walking the straight and narrow, coping, productive, content, maybe even happy, and Fate comes along and says, “My, don’t you look smug,” and gives you a big shove and the next thing you know you’re wandering around in the wilderness with no idea of where you are or where you re going. You can try to figure out where you’ve been and how you got there but that’s pushing it. All you can really do is feel your way through the brambles and pray you see daylight before you get cut to shreds.

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• When you betrayed someone, you didn’t just betray them, you betrayed your families, your community, an entire way of life.

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• “People think survival of the fittest is all right for animals but not for people,” Moses explained expansively. “We’re not culling the human herd the way we oughta. We’re saving the weakest: the ones with AIDS, the folks in Africa who can’t figure out how to feed themselves, them Serbs who can’t stop shooting at their neighbors. We’re gonna rescue ‘em all, and wipe out the human race doing it.”

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• If life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. If it hands you a Rolls-Royce, climb in and break out the champagne.

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• “One American congressman kept the war going in Afghanistan because he was still pissed over Vietnam. Hitler killed twelve million people, not counting soldiers, trying to prove he wasn’t the Austrian version of poor white trash.

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• Alaska

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Followed by So Sure of Death .

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1. Dana Stabenow (Author)

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• Library of Congress: PS3569.T1249 F57 1998
• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery › Series
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Police Procedurals
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary