Loggers Don't Make Love

Loggers Dont Make Love is a tricky deftly written mystery with a narrator that could coax you into a barrel above Niagra falls. Author Dave Rowan paints a true picture of the rough and tumble life in a logging camp on the Olympic Peninsula. The mystery isnt over when the story ends. Reading the prologue reveals the cleverness the author had when penning this thriller.-James Sweeney author of A Thousand Prayers: Alaska Climbing Expedition Marine Life Solidarity and The ListIts the waning days of old growth logging on the Olympic Peninsula and Dave Rowans Knucklehead is one of a group of raucous loggers. Knucklehead relates a fast-paced tale in a strong voice of friendship love death and murder amongst the big trees. No one escapes unscathed and in the end Knucklehead concludes perhaps just recognizing our karma during one lifetime will help us get rid of it in the next one.-Doug Pope Author of The Way to Gaamaak CovePartly inspired by the Louis LAmour novels scattered through the bunkhouses the novel Loggers Dont Make Love takes place in a logging camp on Washington States Olympic Peninsula. The tall tale explores the interplay of camaraderie friendship love and sex and pays tribute to the itinerant workers who found honor in harvesting the last old-growth timber still legal to log. It was a blood sport providing a stage for big egos some of them twisted far from the centers of good manners. Like commercial fishermen and miners loggers found nobility in doing a job that other people didnt want to admit was necessary. Of course the women they pursued could see through the bluster. Grisdale the logging camp was billed as the last real camp in the lower 48 until it closed and disappeared in 1985. The books title may be read as words of advice.Loggers Dont Make Love a stunning debut novella by a former NW logger Dave Rowan defies a literary pigeon-hole. Glorious first-growth NW forests-wild and free and lovely-seep their wildness and more into the loggers who harvest them in the US 70s and the women who love them. Throw in a murder mystery and you have a feast that is good-to-the-last-surprising-drop.-Kerry Dean Feldman author of Alices Trading Post: A Novel of the West and Drunk on Love: Twelve Stories to Savor Responsibly