Bob Romano’s latest novel, RETURN TO RANGELEY, brings back many of the characters from his previous books while featuring two new ones. Returning from Iraq, Nathaniel Palmer, finds himself adrift, the young veteran hoping to find “True North” while staying at his uncle’s cabin tucked between the ridges and rills of western Maine.Having flown helicopters in Afghanistan, George Anne Brady is about to begin a new position as fishing guide for Beaver Den Camps, a traditional sporting lodge, providing anglers access to the Parmachenee Tract, a part of western Maine that has not changed much since Johnny Danforth and Freddy Barker first explored the region in the winter of 1882. Add in various sports with varying degrees of fishing competence, a camp cook with an Irish brogue and an overabundance of tattoos, a handy man who never seems to be around when you need him, a stray dog that has inexplicably survived a winter in Maine’s North Woods and the region’s most-sought-after guide who does not abide competition and you have the final chapter in Romano’s Rangeley Lake series of novels.
