Pete

The Lake
Okay, Pete and the author got their heads together and decided to come clean after a year of being hounded about whether Clear Lake in TARGET is really Crystal Lake. It is, they now admit, and nearby Millport is really Frankfort. So when you see Crystal Lake and Frankfort in HARD WATER BLUES, rest assured that Pete didn’t move his base of operations and it’s not a pair of typographical errors. It’s simply candor winning out under a barrage of inquiries.

Oh, and one more admission. There’s only one Walk Softly Photos, too, and that’s the one owned by Jay Burt, whose fabulous photographs are featured on this website. Go to www.walksoftlyphotos.com to see more of his work.

Scandinavian Heritage
Pete spent the first forty years of his life running away from his heritage. Now he embraces it with the same passion he brings to his pursuit of bad guys. He fights to save the Viking longboat that was sailed from Norway to Chicago for the 1893 Colombian Exhibition, drinks Thor’s Hammer vodka, and recites the names of the old Norwegian kings while swimming. And he set more than a few tongues wagging when army surplus targets suddenly appeared in his backyard. He started using his replica 10th century Viking longbow to drill his least-favorite law partner. To learn more about the bows used by the Vikings, go to www.hurstwic.org, click on “Viking Age History” at the bottom of the page, scroll down to “Martial Arts” and click on “bow.”