Set in the wilds of Maine, this is an explosive tale of an estranged son thrust into the hunt for a murderous fugitive - his own father. Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find an alarming voice from the past on his answering machine: his father, Jack, a hard-drinking womanizer who makes his living poaching illegal game. An even more frightening call comes the next morning from the police: They are searching for the man who killed a beloved local cop the night before - and his father is their prime suspect. Jack has escaped from police custody, and only Mike believes that his tormented father might not be guilty. Now, alienated from the woman he loves, shunned by colleagues who have no sympathy for the suspected cop killer, Mike must come to terms with his haunted past. He knows firsthand Jack's brutality, but is the man capable of murder? Desperate and alone, Mike strikes up an uneasy alliance with a retired warden pilot, and together the two men journey deep into the Maine wilderness in search of a runaway fugitive. There they meet a beautiful woman who claims to be Jack's mistress but who seems to be guarding a more dangerous secret. The only way for Mike to save his father now is to find the real killer - which could mean putting everyone he loves in the line of fire. The Poacher's Son is a sterling debut of literary suspense. Taut and engrossing, it represents the first in a series by Paul Doiron featuring Mike Bowditch.

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9 hours and 22 minutes
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Paul Doiron
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Henry Leyva
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December 30, 2014
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English
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Macmillan Audio
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B00RM36UAM
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	9 hours and 22 minutes
Author	Paul Doiron
Narrator	Henry Leyva
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	December 30, 2014
Publisher	Macmillan Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00RM36UAM
Best Sellers Rank	#10,164 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #91 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Audible Books & Originals) #355 in Crime Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) #457 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books)

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A Teachable Lesson

Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2020

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The Poacher’s Son by Paul Doiron was intriguing for a city girl like me. I enjoyed reading about the backwoods lifestyle, though I had to research several terms I was unfamiliar with. But the experience was worth the effort.

Mike’s relationship with his father was the glue holding the story together. Despite evidence to the contrary, I understood Mike’s blind faith in his father’s innocence and I sympathized with his need to support his father. Unfortunately, his father didn’t feel the same and let his son down many times on many levels. This relationship took the reader beyond the book into life’s lessons.

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Toby Neal

realistic and taut

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2020

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Absolutely loved this first in series by Paul Doiron. I read Knife Creek first, and knew I wanted more of the gritty but tenderhearted Mike Bowditch, the Maine game warden that does like my heroines do...persists with a case when lesser souls would follow procedure. In this first book, his mettle is tested when his "bar brawler" of a father is implicated in a cop killer case with implications, and a manhunt through their home woods keeps tension high.

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Yvonne Warner

Best book I‘ve read in some time

Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2021

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There are books that are entertaining to read, but that are no more than that. And than there are those that are so well written that you are living the story and in the end you can’t believe,it’s over. This book is one of the latter. The vivid description of the characters and the setting doesn’t give you a choice but to become part of the story.

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Stephanie

Love it!

Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2021

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This was a great read! I started this series on book number 4 without knowing it so going back and starting at book one was nice. The story was amazing with a huge plot twist. Cant wait to continue reading about the warden and his cases.

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Robert K Anderson

Good read…first in series

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2021

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I doubled back to read this after several later works. They do stand alone, but cool to watch characters develop. Main character is flawed and real. Good book

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Jim Bulson

A “new” favorite author!

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2019

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I saw an ad for his latest novel in this series, and decided to pick up the first novel to see if it was worth following. It definitely is! As some have stated, it moves along slowly at first, but the character development is excellent, and the ending is hard-hitting. I’m looking forward to getting into the second novel of the series.

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great book

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2022

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Highly recommend, I loved the characters with all their flaws and look forward to reading the second in this series. Well written

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Dan the man

Attention Getter , keeps your attention.

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2017

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A well written story that works it's way into your things you may have thought about. You can place yourself in Mike's position and then what would you do, run into the storm or find a safeway out. No way, live for today and run fast into the fray, you'll love the action with so many twist's and turn's that keep you turning the page's and see where this action takes you - be safe and put the seat belt on. A really great read.

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Doc

Really good yarn and interesting characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2020

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This book is different to other crime stories. The story line itself is very good and the characters are very well developed. The setting is mesmerizingly different, enchanting and credible. I have enjoyed reading a very different type of crime novel and ordered more books from the series.

Philtrum

Competent but not thrilling

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 6, 2012

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Mike Bowditch is a 24-year-old game warden in rural Maine who learns that his estranged, womanising, hard-drinking father is on the run for killing two people.

As the mystery is solved we learn about Mike's childhood, why he became a warden, and a lot about rural Maine.

Competent is the word that springs to mind. Mike is only young, and not very interesting, so we don't care that much about him. Maine is well described but some of the sections feel more like a newspaper article. Much of the book just seemed a little too much by-the-numbers.

It was a quick, easy read. I did not grasp until after I'd finished it (thanks to Amazon) that this is the first of a planned series.

I'm not tempted to read any more in any such series. Perhaps things will improve.

5/10

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RHP

Great writing set in the New England area

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2021

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I chose this book almost be accident but was glad when I did. The story, the first of five in this series, is set in the state of Maine in New England and cover the early years of Mike Bowditch's life as a Forest Ranger, a sort of police service of the forest. The plot is good and the ending unexpected.

peter brux

The Poachers Son

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 18, 2012

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I'm now looking for more by the same author. A very good story, that moved at a good pace, with excellent descriptions of Maine and it's history. The characters were easy to follow and their roles in the unfolding story were clear. My only complaint, and I noticed several other reviewers have mentioned it, is the awaful editing! Why are words broken up: org an i sed being just one of dozens of words! More than once I had to stop and think about the word(s) I was looking at. Surely this can be easily corrected and it would add enjoyment to an otherwise excellent book! I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone wanting an easy to read thriller. I'm giving it 5 stars, despite the poor editing.

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S. Ivory

Give it time

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 11, 2015

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Having read and thoroughly enjoyed Joe Pickett from CJ Box I was thinking that this would be a copy type of book. It is, in a way. Young, hotheaded game warden sticks his nose in where he shouldn't. And in a way I am right, but this lad is new and not sure and is off at all angles trying to defend a dad who he did not really know. It flits from now to back when he was a child so you have the knowledge of where he comes from, and the twist at the end is really good as I was convinced I knew 'who done it'!
I will give the next one in the series a go and see how he develops, but I still love Joe Pickett!

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