Power Lies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781514830918)

Jerry Allen grew up west of Boston as the landscape changed from rural to suburban. To escape he moved to northern New England and worked as a logger for the now defunct Brown Paper Company. Spending all his time in the woods, he developed a love for bird hunting and gun dogs. Eventually Jerry moved back to his hometown, where he planned to help run a family business, but the bustling community felt so different from the sleepy one he remembered that he felt like a fish out of water. To fill free time he took up sailing, and in the late eighties sailed to the Caribbean and called it home for ten years, working as a yacht carpenter and starting to write. Jerry's strong New England roots called him back again and he threw out the anchor on the island of Martha's Vineyard, where he built a cabinetmaking and boat carpentry shop. Since then he's have been traipsing his old grouse and woodcock haunts throughout the Northeast every chance that he gets, accompanied with two German Wirehaired Pointers.