Accokeek, MD: Stoeger Publishing Company, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by two books of short stories), "set in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, where legendary game warden Adam Shaw searches for a lost child on the Appalachian Trail. Along the way he encounters high-tech poachers, ethereal forces, a lost hill folk called the Melungeons and a blood-thirsty grizzly. Cook has been in wildlife law enforcement for years, and his first book draws from his experiences." (Outdoors Unlimited). SIGNED on the title page. 223 pp plus a final map. ISBN: 0-883172720.