After two years of no contact with his estranged father, game warden Mike Bowditch comes home late one night to find the man's voice on his answering machine. The next morning he discovers that a local cop has been murdered, and that his father had been arrested, but has escaped from police custody, making himself the prime suspect in the murder. Mike has seen the level of his father's brutality first-hand, but doesn't believe the man's capable of murder. Mike firmly believes that his father, Jack, is not guilty, and he is the only person who does so, a belief that causes him to become alienated from his colleagues and those around him.
But Mike manages to gain the help of retired warden pilot, Charley Stevens, and together the two of them search Maine's deep wilderness for Mike's father, interview a few suspects of their own, take a look at the scene of the crime for themselves, and meet a woman who is supposedly the mistress of Jack's father. The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron is a captivating story of blind loyalty and betrayal. I would recommend this story to anyone who loves to read a good story of adventure, or mystery.
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