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Hell's Gate: A Novel
It's fire season in Montana...From New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey comes a riveting new thriller about a disillusioned star litigator who goes west to forge a new life in Big Sky Country -- and stumbles onto the toughest case of his career. When thirty-five-year-old lawyer Hunter Lee decides to turn his back on the New York City rat race that has made him r...more
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published
August 18th 2009
by Atria
(first published July 31st 2009)
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One of my former bosses was a smoke jumper at one time in his past. He jumped out of planes to fight fires in the Idaho area and later led crews throughout fire season. He was a pretty interesting guy and told great stories about his adventures in a really laconic way. I thought of him when I picked this book up.
All the elements of a good thriller were here - Montana, smoke jumpers, mysterious fires burning down Montana, untimely deaths, suspicious business and political doings, b...more
All the elements of a good thriller were here - Montana, smoke jumpers, mysterious fires burning down Montana, untimely deaths, suspicious business and political doings, b...more
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Having read most of Stephen Frey's books and enjoying the novels that preceded the "Gillette" series of novels I was looking forward to this book because it didn't include the Gillette character. Not that I didn't like the books but I wanted something different from Mr. Frey. I enjoyed his quick read Forced Out and this falls in the same category. Good characters that you like and dislike with enough curve's in the story to make you think that you didn't see that coming. I would say th...more
Being from Montana, it was fun to listen to a book that had places I knew very well featured in the story. It was also humorous to note the fictitious places and the places that were fictitious but based on a real place. It was also fun to recognize some of the main fictitious characters who happened to have similar stories as major "players" in Montana. As with most business dealings in Montana, there are alliances and deceptions woven together at high levels, making the real story...more
I love Stephen Frey's Christian Gilette series and ever since I read the first one of those, I have picked up all of his new books to read and I am working on his backlist.
Hell's Gate is a departure from the business world in a way and in a way it's not. It is because the main characters are not in big business. Hunter is a big-city lawyer out for trial in Big Sky Country and stays to visit his brother. While there he learns from his brother and his brother's friend Paul that nume...more
Hell's Gate is a departure from the business world in a way and in a way it's not. It is because the main characters are not in big business. Hunter is a big-city lawyer out for trial in Big Sky Country and stays to visit his brother. While there he learns from his brother and his brother's friend Paul that nume...more
It's hard for me to rate this book. I am a Frey fan and this book has a fairly good plot with interesting characters, but I found the 'wilderness' setting of Montana not as appealing as the 'city' settings. I live in the forest [as my grandson calls it] so I enjoy books that take place in NYC, DC, LA, Chicago, Boston or any other major city. No, I don't want to move to any city after living in Houston, but I do like the big city 'action'.
Lots of plot twists! This takes place in Montana where someone is setting forest fires for their own financial gain. The "hero", a NYC lawyer, finds himself involved in solving this crime when he takes a case against a Montana Railroad company. The successful prosecution of that case leads him to who is purposely setting the forest fires.
I will read Frey again.
I will read Frey again.
It's funny, I thought this was the guy who Oprah shamed for writing a sham-memoir (A Thousand Little Pieces?), but it turns out that this isn't that guy at all. What I found instead is a decently written, Montana-based, outdoor thriller, that I thoroughly enjoyed. Deceit, intrigue, fishing and a very un-american ending. Really, what's not to like here.
Oh this book was soooo disappointing to me. It really wasn't THAT bad, but it certainly wasn't what I was expecting. Sort of like having your mouth all set for chocolate ice cream and then getting pickles instead. I thought it was going to be about smoke jumpers and it was, but only marginally. Mostly it was about high-powered business men trying to defraud government contracts. I didn't even read the teaser for the next book by this author at the end. :-(
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Who is starting fires in Montana and why? A hot shot NY lawyer wins a big lawsuit in Montana and moves there. There is a lot going on in this story w/a lot of characters but nothing is grabbing me and I am having trouble getting thru this relatively short book.
Stephen Frey's "Hell's Gate" is a very good yarn. Captures Montana and the power of wildfires. Unfortunately, the ending underwhelms. As always, Frey's characters are on the scale from strong to serviceable. While always an author who hasn't conceived a coincidence that he doesn't like and use, here he's a little too cute. Enjoy the scenery, but don't look too hard behind the curtain.
the book has nothing to do with the biblical context of hell. it's a good read for lawyers - the main character is an attorney. the romance scenes are really cheesy, but on the whole, i really enjoyed reading this book and even laughed out loud a few times.
Frey is a great author! He goes into such detail in his settings and the background of an area that you feel as if you've been there! His story lines are really good and all the questions are answered by the end. Nothing is left hanging.
In Hell's Gate we meet a litigator named Hunter who gets wrapped up in the world of firefighting when he visits his brother in Montana. A rash of huge forest fires breaks out through the western states and Hunter and his brother along with a frien...more
In Hell's Gate we meet a litigator named Hunter who gets wrapped up in the world of firefighting when he visits his brother in Montana. A rash of huge forest fires breaks out through the western states and Hunter and his brother along with a frien...more
Wildfires in a small Montana town. Good job initially but the ending was very abrupt. Feels like I've written that several times of late. Perhaps the problem is all mine.
An interesting mystery novel set in Montana. I really enjoyed the story, but felt like the characters and plot lines could have been much more filled out.
This was a disappointing read, other than the very picturesque setting and interesting life of a fire jumper it all appeared to come together in a bizarre plot.
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I give this book one star out of five - pretty disjointed. It was an interesting look into firefighting but a bit too far fetched a plot about arson to be believable.
Frey usually writes finacial mysteries: wall street, banks etc but this is set in Montana, conspiracy to burn the forests and the work of fire-jumpers.
This was my first book by this author and I will be back for more. The end seemed somewhat contrived, but it had fast chapters and overlapping plots.
Fast paced easy read. Wonderful descriptions of small town Montana. Good story line that kept me guessing until the end.
Very Good; Two pairs of brothers, powerful businessmen, crooked lawyers and politicians all do battle in Montana as fires rage.
A well written, fast paced thriller. This a really good author. I have read most of his books and there is not a bad one.
Frey switches gear here and away from his high tech novels.
ok. high pressure NY lawyer Hunter Lee goes to Montana and the supposed quieter lifeestyle ends up deadly.
This book has already captured my attention. It will be one of those that you can't put down.
Good , fast "fluff" novel -- weak ending
Nice Montana references
100 pages in and I still haven't connected with any of the characters. I'm still waiting for it to dig below the surface.
It started slower than tar, middle was intriguing and fast paced, definitely gave the book potential, but the end came to a screeching halt. Too many loose ends and inbound myself flipping the last page back and forth, thinking, that's it? It's over? What about.....
Should have started faster, and ended with much more info.
It started slower than tar, middle was intriguing and fast paced, definitely gave the book potential, but the end came to a screeching halt. Too many loose ends and inbound myself flipping the last page back and forth, thinking, that's it? It's over? What about.....
Should have started faster, and ended with much more info.
This was good but a bit of a slow read for me. I'm used to reading a book per day when I'm off.
Usually really enjoy the intrigues of Frey's novels...the usual twists and turns as usual, but this one was exteremely dissatisfying especially it's ending...It's like his flight landed, he had to kill off some inportant characters and he had to hurry to bring it to a conclusion...Not recommended at all!!!
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