Incident at Big Sky: The Inside Story of the Search for Two Savage Killers in Montana
✍ Scribed by France, Johnny; McConnell, Malcolm
- Book ID
- 109740584
- Publisher
- Open Road Media
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781504043991
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✦ Synopsis
Edgar Award Finalist: The thrilling true story of the abduction of world-class biathlete Kari Swenson and the five-month manhunt to bring her tormentors to justice.
Former rodeo cowboy Johnny France had been sheriff of Madison County, Montana, for three years when Kari Swenson, a Bozeman resident training for the World Biathlon Championship, went missing near Big Sky Resort in July 1984. Her friends feared that Kari had been attacked by a grizzly bear, but the truth was far scarier: She'd been kidnapped at gunpoint by father-and-son survivalists Don and Dan Nichols. The pair had been living in the wilderness off and on for years and hoped to make Kari a "mountain woman" and Dan's bride. But the plan went horribly wrong from the start, and after a deadly firefight with rescuers, the kidnappers vanished into the rugged terrain of the Spanish Peaks.
As Montana's summer froze into brutal winter blizzards, SWAT teams, forest rangers, and...