Deep Fire Rise

2019 Spur Award Finalist for Best Western Contemporary Novel It is 1980 and Deputy Wilson has been banished to a backwoods district in the shadow of Mount St. Helens. His duty is to protect a humble rural populace from the miscreants and misfits who lurk at this fringe of society - an all-too-human cast of white supremacists, PCP brewers, Sasquatch hunters, and hermetic schizophrenics. That spring the volcano awakens from its long dormancy. Earthquakes rock the locals in their beds. Plumes of ash blot out the sun. Amidst the rising threat of eruption, a horrific act of bloodshed will propel Deputy Wilson to the very flanks of the smoking volcano on a mission that blurs the line between justice and vengeance. A genre-defying blend of mystery and history, Deep Fire Rise is also an homage to the everyday heroism of a profession so often maligned in America today. Dark yet tender, comedic yet sincere, this carefully crafted novel builds into a climax as shocking and unforgettable as the events of May 18, 1980.

Jon Gosch is a national award-winning journalist, novelist, and book editor born and raised between the Columbia River and Mount St. Helens in Washington State. He now lives in Spokane.His second novel, Deep Fire Rise, was honored as a Spur Award Finalist for Best Western Contemporary Novel by the Western Writers of America and was ranked one of the top 75 best Pacific Northwest novels of all time on Goodreads.