Townsend's Solitaire
  • In 1981, Sam Gatlin, now with the National Park Service, investigates a killing by a rogue grizzly in Yellowstone National Park, and in the process uncovers a biker crime ring, tracking down the criminals with the help of a new network technology tool called Townsend’s Solitaire. “A moral chiaroscuro of a novel, unusual, fast-paced, and distinguished by complex ambiguities that offer the reader a view into the vanishing world of the Yellowstone grizzly, “ Dow Mossman

Redburn Press


Townsend's Solitaire is the third novel in Dan Guenther's lost Vietnam trilogy. China Wind, and Dodge City Blues, the other books in the series, are available from Redburn Press on Amazon.com or BarnesAndNoble.com.

Mark Kohut, Publisher, November 2008

TOWNSEND'S SOLITAIRE
Dan Guenther - Redburn, ISBN 1-933704-03-9 —Trade, $14.95

"Many veterans were grabbed by the two previous books in Dan Guenther's trilogy, as I was. But all readers will discover great insights into the complexities of beautiful Yellowstone, and managing the grizzly in a pristine world where the real beasts are two-legged; and where the bears take on personalities of their own. Guenther's trilogy is a touchstone against which the list of novels about Vietnam should be judged, and ranks with the best works of that different, difficult war." — Bob Fischer, Colonel USMC (Ret.), former advisor to the Vietnamese Marine Corps, Lecturer on Strategy and Tactics of the Insurgent, Naval War College.

"Dan Guenther has written an adventure of both body and spirit played out against the rugged beauty of Yellowstone, a man confronting a past that will not let him rest. A compelling and powerful novel." — Ed Gorman, author of The Day the Music Died

"A classic novel of the modern west, where Vietnam veteran Sam Gatlin must come to terms with his violent past." — Dow Mossman, author of The Stones of Summer