FAST-PACED ACTION AND INFUSION OF WILDERNESS SURVIVAL WITH THE THRILLER GENRE. If Bear Grylls worked for a bounty hunter agency . . . Bagging a killer should have been the end of it, but it was only the beginning. Young tracker Mackenzie Crow, working at his uncle's bounty hunting business, is ambivalent when an old flame pleads for help. His intuition tells him to scram and not look back, but Mac's conscience won't allow him to say 'no' to finding a lost child in the woods. Not sure where he stands with Kailee, Mac soon finds out: she is married to his old rival and has kept this from him in order to solicit his expertise. A little bit of information is a dangerous thing . Once in the woods with the Search and Rescue team, Mac comes into his element and within a short time has found the child's trail. He also finds something completely unexpected: a strange set of tracks following the girl. It's clearly the day for unwanted surprises. Deep in the woods, desperately following the trail, Mac comes upon an SAR volunteer face down in the forest with an arrow in his back. Little does Mac know, this is just the beginning of his problems. Before this is through, Crow will be hunted by a psychopath and cadre of foreign mercenaries, all wanting to remove this Mother Nature's son from the land of the living. WILDERNESS ACTION SURVIVAL THRILLER. 1st Place Gold Medallion 2019 Readers Favorite Awards, 1st Place Chanticleer 2016 Clue Awards Thriller/Suspense. "The Sage Wind Blows Cold (Mac Crow Thrillers Book 1) by Clint Hollingsworth is a gripping thriller that will make your blood run cold. It is a brilliantly written book with a scintillating plot and a mesmerizing storyline that climaxes to a smashing finish. The opening chapter is riveting and I couldn't put the book down until the final page. It is an enthralling story with intriguing twists and turns and realistic characters. The characters are easy to love or hate with respect to their individual personalities. Mac is a marvelous protagonist with his down to earth, naturalistic lifestyle, and skills that are comparable to those of Bear Grylls. This is a tremendously exciting thriller, and I am looking forward to experiencing more of Mac's exploits in the future!" - Readers' Favorite Book Awards My grandparents Slim and Janie Hollingsworth started the Icicle Island Camp and High Mountain Packers, taking people camping into the Cascade Mountains of Washington state. It sounds too good to be true doesn't it?  Camping for a living!  The Icicle Island Camp was the family passion and all the Hollingsworths worked the mountain trails of the Icicle Valley near Leavenworth.  Having spent a good deal of my time in the woods growing up, I developed a certain sensitivity to the natural environment, enhanced when I became a student of the Tom Brown Jr Tracker School, learning wilderness survival and tracking.This led me to more advanced training from naturalist Jon Young in tracking and awareness, and survival skills from survival instructor Frank Sherwood, training which has saved my life in the far back country.  I hope that you enjoy this wilderness thriller which incorporates fighting and survival skills learned with my wilderness and martial arts background. Clint Hollingsworth is a 4th degree blackbelt in  ShoRei Shobu Kan Okinawan Goju Ryu  karate. He studied tracking under Tom Brown, Jr., consultant on "The Hunted" starring Benicio del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones. Hollingsworth is the author of a Wilderness Thriller series (Mac Crow), 1st Place Chanticleer 2016 Clue Awards Thriller/Suspense and Silver Medal finalist 2017 Readers' Favorite Awards, as well as co-authoring "Wolves in Sheep's Clothing" with judo and martial arts expert Kris Wilder.  Hollingsworth is the author/artist/creator of the long running post-apocalyptic web comic "The Wandering Ones" at wanderingones.com with over 20,000 readers world-wide. "The Road Sharks" (Ghost Wind Chronicles #1) was a 2016 finalist in the Cygnus Awards for science fiction. His newest novel "Seeker One", is a sci-fi space opera. #4 in the Mac Crow series is coming 2019, with Mac making an appearance on an "Alone"-inspired TV show.