Mists of the Couchsacrage
Rescue from State Land
by
Book Details
About the Book
Unique among books about the famous Adirondack Park
of New York State, Mists of the
Couchsacrage is an exciting action
adventure tale involving a remote wetland area on restricted state land, a
plane crash involving a very important passenger, a severe ice storm, and the
travails of a four person rescue party as they struggle to get to any
survivors.
Interesting characters are everywhere, with lots of
entertaining dialogue. Rescuers include
a bitter guide, an environmentally conscious forest ranger, a tough
policewoman from the city, and a drunken medic with horrible memories.
Caught also in the ice storm is a gang of desperate
drug runners, crossing the icy morass to escape scenes of unspeakable crimes.
Plane crash survivors, the rescue party, and a band
of heartless killers: stories
interwoven in the deadly frozen marsh!
Who will come out alive?
About the Author
A fourth generation Adirondacker, Alden L. Dumas, who has also written a classic western, Sons of the Double J (available through AuthorHouse, link is at the bottom of this page) has enjoyed the outdoors most of his life, largely at a camp on leased property. A devotee of sound ecologic practices, he nevertheless sees no need for environmental groups to lobby for the purchase of "every square inch of Adirondack land."
A volunteer fireman, he was on duty during the great ice storm of 1998, giving a basis for this story.
He was born in Tupper Lake, N.Y. in 1940. He graduated from Tupper Lake High School in 1958.
After he graduated from SUNY Cortland in 1962, he taught for eight years in McGraw, N.Y., before he, his wife Pauline, and their three sons, Matthew, Jay, and Andrew, moved to Keene Valley, N.Y., where he retired in 1996.