Jim Harrison is one of our most renowned and popular authors and his last novel The Great Leader was one of the most successful in a decorated career: it appeared on the New York Times extended bestseller list and was a national bestseller with rapturous reviews. His darkly comic follow-up The Big Seven sends Detective Sunderson to confront his new neighbors a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan.
Detective Sunderson has fled troubles on the home front and bought himself a hunting cabin in a remote area of Michigan?s Upper Peninsula. No sooner has he settled in than he realizes his new neighbors are creating even more havoc than the Great Leader did. A family of outlaws armed to the teeth the Ameses have local law enforcement too intimidated to take them on. Then Sunderson?s cleaning lady a comely young Ames woman is murdered and black sheep brother Lemuel Ames seeks Sunderson?s advice on a crime novel he?s writing which may not be fiction. Sunderson must struggle with the evil within himself and the far greater more expansive evil of his neighbor.
In a story shot through with wit bedlam and Sunderson?s attempts to enumerate and master the seven deadly sins The Big Seven is a superb reminder of why Jim Harrison is one of America?s most irrepressible writers.
