Moving Targets

Description

Claxton has no idea that his new client will turn his life upside down. As he begins to investigate, he starts finding links between his cases and the possibility of a lucrative riverfront project and a foreign assassin. And in a separate battle, he recruits neighbors to stop the reboot of a quarry operation that threatens his farmhouse home in rural Dundee.

Formerly a research scientist and international business executive, Warren C. Easley lives in Oregon where he writes fiction, tutors GED students, fly fishes and skis. Easley is the author of the Cal Claxton Oregon Mysteries. He received a Kay Snow National Award for fiction in 2012 and was named the Northwest's Up and Coming Author in 2017, both honors bestowed by Willamette Writers.

"With Moving Targets, Warren Easley delivers another humdinger of a tale featuring the City of Roses. But there's so much more to like about this story than just its evocative Portland setting. Cal Claxton is a guy worth rooting for, and the gang who aid him in solving the complex and dangerous mystery involved are a fun bunch to follow. If you're not familiar with these gems out of Oregon, now's the perfect time to give Warren Easely and Cal Claxton a try. You won't be disappointed."--William Kent Krueger, award-winning, bestselling author of Ordinary Grace and the Cork O'Connor series "Oenophiles and aspiring vintners will enjoy the wine lore in this well-wrought tale of love and betrayal."--Publishers Weekly review of Blood for Wine "It's a familiar trail of crime syndicates, money laundering, and contract killers, but what's most interesting is Claxton himself - good-natured, superficially dull as dishwater, not at all deft with the ladies. He's generally slow to anger, too, but when the greedheads, on top of their international scams, crank up a loud gravel quarry outside Claxton's home, things change. They should have known better."--Don Crinklaw "Booklist " "Intelligent dialogue, evocative descriptions of the Oregon landscape, and sly pokes at the current cultural climate make this a winner."--Publishers Weekly "Even if you've never been to Portland, Easley writes with such a strong sense of place that it puts you right in the scene that many writers try, but often fail, to accomplish."--bookreporter "Easley continues in every installment of this series to get a better handle on his characters and the vital balance between principal and supporting plots."--Kirkus Reviews