Keller's Turn

<p><i>Keller's Turn: a Novel</i> concerns the life of Frank Keller biotech billionaire husband avid sailor runner and bow hunter who at fifty-three sees his life come to bits in the days preceding Christmas. On a Friday night the first night of the long holiday weekend his wife of three decades decides to leave him (decamping for their Aspen house for the holidays) and at a loss Keller tries to reconstruct the remains his life through lonely action. In doing so he telephones his ranch manager in Texas to check in and discovers that their Alpha bison the largest male in the herd is going crazy destroying other livestock and wreaking havoc on the ranch. The manager says the aging (and expensive) bison may have to be put down in the interest of the other livestock and the property and Keller nominates himself for the job using his bow and arrow and hunting the bison on horseback across the ranch. It does not end well for the bison other innocent people and Keller himself. Taut visual and ultimately visceral it's a good read.</p>