The Bukwas

About the Book

Jeff Simms is a cop. He has identified himself with his position so completely that, when age forces his retirement, he decides to kill himself. In his last weeks on the job an entomology professor who claims to have discovered a giant insect is brutally murdered. Simms suspects the professor's graduate student. Brent Harchuck, who agrees that such an animal is impossible. When they confront the bug in flesh they end up joining the forces and set off in search of the reclusive animal. In the course of the hunt Simms realizes that he is more than his job.

About the Author

Dan Jamieson has lived in all parts of Canada and has been at various times a Customer Care Agent, an educator, a journalist and lawyer. Through all his moves and occupations he has been writing things down. Essays, short stories, and longer works sometimes emerged from a jumble of diary entries, notes and observations. His other hobby is hiking, which gets him into the countryside wherever he is living. The sights, sound and smells of the outdoors have always been part of his pleasure and part of his writing. He now lives in Edmonton, Alberta.