McTague: Past Is Prologue (The Jerrod Series)

Since World War II, custom harvesters have cut endless swaths through the summer wheat of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, western Kansas, and into the upper Midwest. Using their mammoth combines, custom harvesters cut a square mile of grain in a fraction of the time it would take an individual farmer.Blue Sky Harvesters has made the trek in the searing summer heat for almost a half-century. For the last three years, the crew of high school and college boys have worked eighteen-hour days, moving from field to field. The team is managed by Scotty McTague, the third generation of his family, to take on the job. He and his wife Jenny lead the operation through encounters with a boorish privileged land-owner, a long-time customer facing bankruptcy, a rouge prairie fire, and drenching rains that halt operations. Scotty’s job stress is elevated when he must fire a distant relative who was promised a place on the crew by the elder McTague.Scotty had left his well-paying media job three years before becoming the third-generation manager of the harvesting operation when his father’s health failed. Before the season began, a former associate tracks Scotty down and makes a very attractive offer that promises a return to the life he, his wife and two children enjoyed.The life-changing decision is made when, on a stifling hot August afternoon, Jenny encounters that most primitive of nature’s creatures, a snake.
ASIN: 1736036726
VSKU: BVV.1736036726.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Hughes, Wayne
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use