An adventure novel that follows Jake Mahoney, a timber feller working on the central Oregon coast. Jake is hired as a log detective for Continental Corporation, but switches sides when he begins to suspect the stolen logs he's been sent to investigate are but a ruse in a conspiracy to implicate their three largest competitors in a crime. It's 1939 and the demand for lumber is skyrocketing due to the war in Europe. Jake confronts head on the international timber corporation's subversive efforts to control the timber industry in the region. A modern day David vs Goliath.
