The Bushman's Lair

The Bushman's Lair is a sometimes sensational true crime account of the adventures of an extraordinary cipher. --Foreword Reviews In this stranger-than-fiction, intrigue-packed story, Paul McKendrick sets out to unwrap and understand the complicated and colorful tale of this enigmatic figure... --Vancouver Sun The Bushman's Lair is a riveting, fast-paced, and suspenseful account of one of BC's most notorious and fascinating fugitives. Just as the Bushman carved out his own cave somewhere in the thick of woods along Shuswap Lake, author Paul McKendrick skillfully carves out the Bushman's engrossing story onto the page. The deeper McKendrick digs, the stranger the truth becomes. --Grant Lawrence, CBC personality and author of Adventures in Solitude A fine telling of an irresistible wilderness tale. McKendrick is just as dogged in unearthing the Bushman's hidden trail and motives as the Bushman was in evading his pursuers. --Alex Hutchinson, columnist for The Globe and Mail and Outside Magazine, author of Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Performance At a time when modern communications and GPS technology have made it unlikely you will find a blank spot on the map, reading Paul McKendrick's fascinating book is a rare treat. To say stranger-than-fiction is not enough; this story is stranger than most any reality we might imagine. Crack open this book, sit down in a comfortable chair, or somewhere with a view of the water lapping on the shore of a lake, and be prepared to settle in for a disquieting and mysterious read. --Stephen Legault, author of the Cole Blackwater and Durrant Wallace mystery series A footloose misfit? A psychic in training for the US military? A private investigator for one of the principals in the Bre-X gold mining scandal? A fugitive fleeing an alleged death contract? A crusader for justice? A deluded thief and burglar? Who was the real John Bjornstrom? Paul McKendrick wanted answers, and his quest to unravel the mysteries of Bjornstrom's life artfully wends together an improbable historical backstory, recollections of friends and family, and police records to tell the tale of the enigmatic and curious Bushman of the Shuswap. --Stephen R. Bown, author of The Company: The Rise and Fall of the Hudson's Bay Empire A must read. You won't be disappointed. --Sage Birchwater, The Ormsby Review McKendrick's writing is lucid and workmanlike, and the narrative pulls you along nicely. --Winnipeg Free Press