Our Hero
Pete, who is going through some severe personal upheavals, decides to get away and get in shape at the same time. He takes a job lumberjacking at a Washington State lumber company, whose practice it is to clear-cut.
The Client
This company, GreenGrowth, however, has a conscience, and plants five trees for every tree it fells. The company spends millions developing hybrid fast-growing, disease-resistant new species, and GreenGrowth is getting good press, to the chagrin of some. Those unhappy few see all business done in the out-of-doors, such as timber harvesting, mining, fishing, drilling, river-rafting, etc., as being contrary to nature. It does not matter to them what care goes into the undertaking; they see these industries as an affront to God.
The Bad Guys
GreenGrowth has been infiltrated by an agent of a rogue, militant, on-the-fringe, environmental group named Swords of the Earth. Their intent is to sabotage GreenGrowth’s good works and good name. Their motive: Fanaticism. Their method: Violence.
What's Goin' On?
Peter’s personal preferences are un-noted as he fits into this he-man environment, but not unnoticed. His acceptance onto one of the elite crews, upon the recommendation of the unit manager, a friend of Pete’s from Yale, puts him as one of the targets of the saboteurs. Before it’s all over, Pete is taken down from the tree-tops, down river, down a mine shaft, down below on a fishing vessel, down south on an off-shore drilling platform, and downtown under arrest.
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