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Far from towns and far from help, what matters most: duty, family, or the need to stay alive?
In Snow-Blind, Albert M. Treynor takes you into the Canadian wilderness, where winter and distance shape every choice. Mounted Police officers, trappers, and families inhabit a world of snow, ice, and long silence. Here, help is distant, travel is slow, and the struggle for warmth and shelter gives adventure its sharp edge.
Family loyalty stands beside duty at the heart of this northern tale. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police represent law on a vast frontier, while family bonds carry special weight where help is so far away. Beneath these pressures lies a plain, urgent question: how do people survive when the cold makes every basic need matter?
What you’ll discover
- A wilderness that rules Enter a northern landscape where snow, ice, and distance set the terms of daily life.
- Duty far from towns Explore the place of the Mounted Police where other sources of law do not reach.
- Family ties under pressure Consider what loyalty means when those closest to you must depend on one another.
- The essentials of survival Feel the urgency of food, warmth, shelter, and sight when winter closes in.
- Old-fashioned northern adventure Discover a tale rooted in hard weather, remote lives, and the struggle to endure.
Who will love it
You will love this if you enjoy wilderness chases, brothers who joke in the face of danger, and romance that grows through suspicion and trust among dog sleds, blizzards, owls and Mounties.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A radio message sends Kit north
- A stranger's gun holds a family secret
- Jerry returns with a girl in handcuffs
- A buried sledge of gold and a borrowed uniform
- A bloody cabin at Great Owl Run
- A policeman who has never signed up
- Hunted in the owl woods
- Tracks that lead nowhere
- What the story is about
Who’s who
- Kitchener TearlKit, a young New York lawyer with a jaunty left eyebrow, goes north to find his missing brother and his lost father.
- Jerry TearlKit's older brother, a reckless, funny Mountie sergeant who calls himself Buck and sends Kit into danger with a joke.
- Diane DurandA quick-tempered, resourceful young woman who follows her uncle north and keeps her own secrets.
- OoglyA cheerful Eskimo hunter who admits a killing without shame and becomes Kit's loyal companion.
- Simeon BentCalled Hell Bent, a scarred convict just freed after eleven years and believed to be hunting a hidden sled of gold.
- Constables Devon and CrossTwo lonely Mounties at the Saut Sauvage outpost who greet their new sergeant with banter and loyalty to their service.
- Giffard and BruyasTwo local trappers, one small and sly, one huge and sullen, who guard their ground and watch the newcomers closely.
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Snow-Blind
A radio message about the dead who do not die sends a New York lawyer into the frozen north after his brother.
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A radio voice from Springfield reads a strange letter to a Mountie in the far north: the dead do not always die. In a New York apartment, Kitchener Tearl hears it and decides to find the brother he lost years ago.
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A radio message sends Kit north
Kitchener Tearl, twenty-four, hears a radio letter meant for Sergeant Buck Tearl of the Mounted Police. It is signed Diane and urges the sergeant to seek answers from Kablunak's band on Queen Maud Sea. Kit is sure Buck is his brother Jerry, who vanished years ago after a savage street fight.
His family has a long northern history. His grandfather served the Hudson's Bay Company, and his father, Inspector Bill Tearl, disappeared in the wilds twelve years earlier. Every January since then, an anonymous five thousand dollars has arrived at the family home, and the family has never spent it.
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What is Snow-Blind about?
It follows Kitchener Tearl, a New York lawyer who goes to the Canadian north to find his brother, a Mountie. He ends up posing as a sergeant in a hunt for a killer, a gold sled and his missing father.
What does snow-blind mean in the book?
It means two things. Literally it is the painful loss of sight caused by sun on snow. Jerry also uses it for the way the north takes hold of a man's heart and will not let go.
Who is Hell Bent?
Simeon Bent is an ex-convict thought to have ambushed Inspector Tearl's party twelve years ago. Kit and Jerry believe he is coming back to claim a hidden sled of gold. The novel keeps readers guessing about who he really is.
The author
Albert M. Treynor
American writer
Albert M. Treynor writes Snow-Blind with fast action, strong humor and a vivid sense of Canada's northern wilderness.
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