Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
When it began, he was just another stranger without a name. When it ended he was the most notorious criminal in North America, the object of the largest manhunt in RCMP history.
This is the story of the Mad Trapper, a silent man of superhuman strength and endurance, who defied capture for 50 days in the bitter cold of winter north of the Arctic Circle. A man who crossed hundreds of miles of frozen tundra on foot...who survived dynamite blasts and the pursuit of police, trappers and the army...who became the first man to cross the Richardson Mountains in a blizzard.
This is also the story of Spike Millen, a humane, young RCMP officer who is at first reluctant to take up the grim pursuit, then becomes driven with a relentless obsession.
In this fictionalized account of the life and death of the notorious Albert Johnson, aka the Mad Trapper, Rudy Wiebe draws on history and the art of fiction to craft a compelling story of the hunted and the hunter.
Synopsis
The Mad Trapper centers on a criminal whom police chase across the Arctic tundra.