Comeback

by Leif Enger
Category: "Fiction - Mystery"
Pages:194
Year of Publication:1990
Date Added:06/17/2026
Date Read:06/30/2026
Notes:First book in the Gun Pedersen series. Gun is an ex-big league star who quit baseball when his wife died and the story came out that he was having an affair. Years later, he lives on a lake in northern Minnesota and has a touchy relationship with his daughter, Mazy. A local big shot, Hedman, is promoting a new development on Gun's lake, and he needs Gun's land to get it. The land is in Mazy's name, so he threatens her into marrying his son. Gun is suspicious and begins investigating, but people keep dying. He finds out Hedman's thugs have taken Mazy to Canada and plans to kill her too. He and his friend Jack go up and get her. They come back to find Hedman waiting for them. He and Jack manage to get away, there's a shoot-0ut and fight on the lake. All the evil people die and all the good people are fine.
My Rating: 5

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Review - Comeback

Pedersen is too good — always winning fights, always getting away injured but OK. Hedman is too slimy and too ready to kill to be believable in the context of small-town Minnesota. It sorta read like Travis McGee, but with a less-likeable character and poorer writing. I won't be reading more in the series.
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