This is the rugged story of Jack Gilliam, a third-generation logger who, in the wake of a junk-bond Wall Street takeover of Oregon forests, becomes the timber war's first world famous casualty. Gilliam then becomes its most coveted pawn, as timber bosses, environmental protesters, cut-throat news reporters and politicians from county commissioners to the President, crawl over each other to profit from his tragedy. "'Forest Blood'" is a uniquely compelling fiction about core American issues that are rarely touched by today's fiction. This is a powerful portrait of a region in transition made vivid by the human beings who belong to it." Andrei Cordrescu "This historical novel, with its deceptively simple narrator, is dumb like a fox. In a stubbornly blue-collar voice, yet in dissertation-worthy detail, Jeff Golden almost lovingly lays bare the Northwest's single greatest folly since the eradication of the Indian tribes: the corporate welfare program that has all but destroyed our vast native forests." David James Duncan -- Publisher Comments Jeff Golden is a former woodsman, environmental troublemaker, county commissioner, and nominee for the JFK Profile in Courage Award. He currently works as a mediator and public radio talk show host in Ashland, Oregon. Used Book in Good Condition