Incident at Big Sky

By Johnny France & Malcolm McConnell




Incident at Big Sky - Johnny France & Malcolm McConnell

More by Johnny France & Malcolm McConnell : Incident at Big Sky


Related Books



Edgar Award Finalist: The “exciting” true story of the abduction of biathlete Kari Swenson and the five-month manhunt to bring her tormentors to justice (The New York Times Book Review).

Former rodeo cowboy Johnny France had been sheriff of Madison County, Montana, for three years when Kari Swenson, a Bozeman resident training for the World Biathlon Championship, went missing near Big Sky Resort in July 1984. Her friends feared that Kari had been attacked by a grizzly bear, but the truth was far scarier: She’d been kidnapped at gunpoint by father-and-son survivalists Don and Dan Nichols. The pair had been living in the wilderness off and on for years and hoped to make Kari a “mountain woman” and Dan’s bride. But the plan went horribly wrong from the start, and after a deadly firefight with rescuers, the kidnappers vanished into the rugged terrain of the Spanish Peaks.
 
As Montana’s summer froze into brutal winter blizzards, SWAT teams, forest rangers, and antiterrorist units searched the backcountry but sighted the mountain men only once. Then came the call about a strange campfire on a slope above the Madison River. Sheriff France decided to go into the forest to face the fugitives—alone. The resulting showdown made him “perhaps the most famous Western sheriff since Wyatt Earp . . . a modern legend” (Chicago Tribune).
 
Incident at Big Sky is an “amazing . . . exciting retelling of a modern crime” that made headlines around the world (The New York Times Book Review). In a voice as distinctive and compelling as the Montana landscape, France takes readers on a high-stakes adventure so bizarre and unforgettable it could only be true.


Search



Recent Posts
The Idaho Four
The Doomsday Mother
I Know Who You Are
The Wager
Last Victim
When the Night Comes Falling
Worm
One Nation Under Blackmail – Vol. 2
Say Nothing
In Cold Blood
Murder in the Dollhouse
Framed
Under the Banner of Heaven
Killers of the Flower Moon
Takedown
Trail of the Lost
Scarface and the Untouchable
Chaos
Chasing Evil
The Lost Tomb
The Great Chinese Art Heist
My Life As An FBI Special Agent
Nine Lives
Incident at Big Sky
Unmasked
The Franklin Scandal
Wiseguy
Donnie Brasco
Casino
Five Families
Epstein
The Peepshow
Love Her to Death
Honolulu Homicide
Killer Dad
Homicide
Small Sacrifices
The Family Next Door
The Infiltrator
Quest for Love
The Sleep Room
Whoever Fights Monsters
Miami Outlaw
The I-5 Killer
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
After Escobar
Wastelands
The Perfect Father
The Vory
Emma y las otras señoras del narco
And Never Let Her Go
Home of the Happy
Stolen Innocence
The Ice Man
Zodiac Unmasked
A Made Guy The True Story Of A Genovese Gangster
The Informant
Midnight in Peking
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade
Gomorrah
Blood Aces
Dead in the Water
Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist
The Killer's Shadow
Typhoid Mary
The Cold Vanish
My Life As An FBI Special Agent
Battle for Las Vegas, The
A False Report
Severed
Slow Death:
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream
The Big Heist
Then No One Can Have Her
A Gentleman and a Thief
The Beast I Loved
'Till Death Do Us Part
Dead of Night
Butcher
The Billionaire Murders
Fallen Angel
Bear Witness: The Pursuit of Justice in a Violent Land
Cruel Games
Kill the Ones You Love
Chris Watts
The True Pirates of the Caribbean
A Light in the Dark
Carmine and the 13th Avenue Boys
Bind, Torture, Kill
First We'll Kill My Husband
Inside the Montreal Mafia
The Eyes of Willie McGee
True Crime Online
The Outlaw Bank
Summary of Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love
The Carpool Detectives
Black Mafia Queen
Famous Last Words
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
The Devil at His Elbow