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The hookmen

Timothy Hillmer

1994244 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1994
first published
  • 1994University Press of Colorado · 244 pages · ENGISBN 9780870813481
  • 1996Scribner Paperback Fiction · 244 pages · ENGISBN 9780684813868

A novel on water rafting. The protagonist is a young man who takes a job as a hookman, retrieving the bodies of rafters from a California river. One day he, a friend and a woman decide to make a trip of their own. A triangle romance which ends in death. A first novel.

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