num_pages: 260
description: In John B. Wrights debut environmental mystery Matt Solberg is charged with discovering who is lighting fires in the forests that surround Missoula Montana. A geographer with a deep personal need to bring people out of danger Matt leads a search and rescue team whose job is to head directly into the mouth of hell hiking into blazing backcountry to find missing residents. Matt and his team not only rely on their hard-won knowledge of Montanas wild landscape but also on Matts mentor Dr. Bill Knight a fire ecologist who understands the burning beast better than anyone. When a suspicious fire destroys the mansion of a movie star Matt must hike in to find his missing daughter and save her from the chaos. Then fires begin to explode everywhere as climate change drives temperatures over 100 degrees and rain refuses to fall threatening thousands of homes. Who is setting these fires? Is it the Montana Tree Monkeys an eco-radical group determined to scare off the newcomers? Or is it a retired smokejumper with an axe to grind about the encroaching mansions? Could it be Paladin a shadowy figure leaving strange clues around the state? Its Matts mission to find answers to these questions during a summer of heat smoke and unimaginable loss. Weaving together gripping drama and intriguing fire science Fire Scars reveals the physical and psychological wounds we all carryand the power we have to overcome. 
language: English
title: Fire Scars: A Novel
publisher: University of Nevada Press