We Bring You an Hour of Darkness - Paperback

by Michael Bourne (Author)

Cozy up with this page-turning ski town mystery as a band of determined journalists uncover the truth behind an eco-terrorist plot.​

"Crisp prose, sharply drawn characters, and keen and often humorous observations of mountain town life make this a compelling read. I LOVED THIS BOOK." -Gwen Florio, author of Best Laid Plans and The Least Among Us​

It's 1993, and the ski company that runs Franklin, Colorado, plans to build a massive new resort in a pristine wilderness home to an endangered wildcat. When eco-terrorists begin a series of attacks on infrastructure and property, the FBI sets up a national task force. While the local police and politicians are melting down, editor Tish Threadgill and her team of intrepid reporters are in a unique position to crack the case.​

With her newspaper on the brink of collapse, Tish is under pressure from a rival publication to sell. But a local literary malcontent turns out to have a ringside seat to the eco-terrorist plot. While trying to stave off the town's power brokers who would very much like her pesky paper gone, Tish soon finds the mystery at the heart of the attacks are far too close to home.​

Full of non-stop plot twists, nail-biting action, and colorful characters, We Bring You an Hour of Darkness will hook you from the first page.

Author Biography

Author Michael Bourne has been a contributor to the New York Times, The Economist, Tin House, and Literary Hub, among other publications and had his stories published widely in literary magazines. His debut novel Blithedale Canyon received rave reviews in Publishers Weekly, Zyzzyva, and Rain Taxi, which called it, "A clever blend of literary fiction with elements of crime and noir ... [whose] cinematic quality comes from characters that demand a performance." For this novel, Bourne draws on his experience as a reporter at the Aspen Daily News, the pages of which were filled with a witch's brew of charismatic wanderers, frontiersmen and women, and charlatans who populate mountain ski towns. He lives in Vancouver, Canada, with his wife and son.