Double Challenge

Two outdoorsmen and their tricolored collie maintain a remote camp, plumbing a spring, cutting wood and hunting to keep the place going. Their ordinary tasks are upended when a shooting draws law-enforcement attention and triggers a search that forces them into tracking and pursuit. Along the way the dog carries messages, hunters face wildlife hazards including a charging bear and lively woodcock flights, and traps and betrayals complicate loyalties. The narrative alternates practical campcraft and pursuit scenes with moral pressures, testing the characters’ courage, resourcefulness and bonds under mounting danger.