Showing Vermilion Drift by William Kent Krueger

Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 320 Publisher: Atria Books Some Nights. Corcoran O'Connor dreams his father's death.William Kent Krueger's gripping tale of suspense begins with a recurring nightmare of a gun and A wound in the earth so deep and horrific that it has a name: Vermilion Drift. When the Department of Energy puts an underground iron mine on its short list of potential sites for storage of nuclear waste. a barrage of protest erupts in Tamarack County. Minnesota. and Cork is hired as a security consultant. Deep in the mine during his first day on the job. Cork stumbles across a secret room that contains the remains of six murder victims. Five appear to be nearly half a century old-connected to what the media once dubbed The Vanishings. a series of unsolved disappearances in the summer of 1964. when Cork's father was sheriff in Tamarack County. But the sixth has bee...