When a group of Boy Scouts heads into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area on a canoe/ camping trip it starts off as fun and games. But injuries to a camper send him and a scout leader home early and the disappearance of the second scout leader leaves 16-year-olds Sam and Eddie alone to take care of a group of younger scouts in the wilderness.
With that the action really starts to heat up when Sam overhears three Arab men sitting around a campfire discuss plans to blow up the Mega Mall in Minneapolis. As Sam will learn, this is just a smaller part of a larger terrorist plot to bring America to her knees.
Things really unravel for Sam when the terrorists figure out that Sam knows their secret and the hunt for him—and the other scouts, begins.
What’s a scout to do?
In Blake Fontenay’s Scouts’ Honor the pages are filled with a twisting, turning rip-roaring plot; intense dialogue and danger is everywhere.
And it’s all set in the BWCAW.
In one harrowing incident the scouts escape from the terrorists and set a trap that sends rocks raining down on them from a cliff.
“He stood there, clenching and unclenching his fists and breathing heavily. He wanted to kill those boys so badly for hurting him and making him feel foolish.”
The chase continues and the plot thickens page after page.
“There are lakes and rivers running through these woods. In order to get out of here the children will have to return to the canoes eventually. And when they do, we will be waiting for them.” Words out of the mouth of The Lamb Butcher, a trained assassin.
Will the kids live? What about a strange hermit they meet who lives in the woods that lends them a hand? Who is he? And where is their scoutmaster? Would they ever find him, or had he gone missing forever, dying in some sort of wilderness accident?
For more than 25 years Blake Fontenay was a columnist and a reporter for metropolitan daily newspapers. He worked at the Orlando Sentinel, Memphis Commercial Appeal, the Sacramento Bee and Jacksonville Times. Today he is communications director for the State of Tennessee.
When asked if he would like to make writing books his main job, Fontenay smiled and said, “Yes. If there is a way, this is what I would like to do full-time.”
Fontenay was busy signing autographed copies of his book at the Lake Superior Trading Post on Sunday, July 26. As a youngster he said he took many camping/canoe trips into the BWCAW. His descriptions about the BWCAW, its animals, waters, rocks and bugs, flowers and shrubs are authentic.
This is Fontenay’s second book and a great read. At 221 pages, it is a fast paced page-turner that can be read in one sitting.
Scouts Honor can be purchased at Lake Superior Trading Post in Grand Marais, and on-line through Kindle. Pick up a copy. You won’t regret it.
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