The Big Seven (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780802123336)

Jim Harrison is one of our most renowned and popular authors, and his last novel, The Great Leader, was one of the most successful in a decorated career: it appeared on the New York Times extended bestseller list, and was a national bestseller with rapturous reviews. His darkly comic follow-up, The Big Seven, sends Detective Sunderson to confront his new neighbors, a gun-nut family who live outside the law in rural Michigan.

Detective Sunderson has fled troubles on the home front and bought himself a hunting cabin in a remote area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. No sooner has he settled in than he realizes his new neighbors are creating even more havoc than the Great Leader did. A family of outlaws, armed to the teeth, the Ameses have local law enforcement too intimidated to take them on. Then Sunderson's cleaning lady, a comely young Ames woman, is murdered, and black sheep brother Lemuel Ames seeks Sunderson's advice on a crime novel he's writing which may not be fiction. Sunderson must struggle with the evil within himself and the far greater, more expansive evil of his neighbor.

In a story shot through with wit, bedlam, and Sunderson's attempts to enumerate and master the seven deadly sins, The Big Seven is a superb reminder of why Jim Harrison is one of America's most irrepressible writers.


Author: Jim Harrison
ISBN-10: 0802123333
ISBN-13: 9780802123336
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2015
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.80w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/22/2014
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2015
Library Journal 01/01/2015 pg. 91
Booklist 01/01/2015 pg. 44
Outside 02/01/2015 pg. 24
Shelf Awareness 02/06/2015
New York Times Book Review 03/08/2015 pg. 30
New York Times Book Review 03/01/2015 pg. 14