Wild Animals

<p>Good old by Merle Puhl is campaigning to be a United States Senator from Montana and a former President is coming to Rozette to give him a hand.  This means that the Secret Service is coming too and local police detective Ray Bartell is assigned to work with them.  Bartell’s job:  act as the security detail’s tour guide in the realm of local lunatics.  The job starts out interesting but takes a bad turn when Puhl decides to use one outspoken environmentalist Henry Skelton as campaign fodder.  Skelton has a violent past so the Secret Service—and consequently Bartell—must take him seriously.  In response Skelton seems determined to prove that everything Puhl does to portray him as a dangerous extremist is true.  But where Bartell comes to wonder are the lines of extremism drawn?  How do you recognize the difference between a patriotic fool and a foolish patriot?  And how do you sort out the wreckage when the two clash?</p>