Warlock

by Jim Harrison

John Lundgren, a.k.a. Warlock, is an unemployment foundation executive whose life is  about to become unhinged.  After surviving a midlife crisis, Warlock finally decides to get a job.  He soon discovers, however, that his new boss, Dr. Rabun, is no less evil to Professor Moriarty.  Hired to troubleshoot for the doctor, Warlock himself  battling poachers in the haunted wilderness of northern Michigan while also spying on his  employer's wife and son in the seamy underside of Key West.  A comedy with one foot in the abyss, Warlock is the singular literary entertainment from an American master.

272 pages, Paperback

First published June 15, 1981

About the author

Jim Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, to Winfield Sprague Harrison, a county agricultural agent, and Norma Olivia (Wahlgren) Harrison, both avid readers. He married Linda King in 1959 with whom he has two daughters.

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His awards include National Academy of Arts grants (1967, 68, 69), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1969-70), the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountain & Plains Booksellers Association, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007).

Much of Harrison's writing depicts sparsely populated regions of North America with many stories set in places such as Nebraska's Sand Hills, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Montana's mountains, and along the Arizona-Mexico border.