Conjuring the dark legacy of post-war Bosnia, a world inhabited by warlords, smugglers and people willing to do anything to survive, Jon Evans launches readers full-speed into another thrilling page-turner. Paul Wood, the backpacking thirtysomething hero of Dark Places, returns in this novel of "human cargo" and the smuggling of refugees desperate for freedom. Paul’s attempt to help a Tamil child separated from his refugee family throws him into a confrontation with gun-toting gangsters, international dealers in human desperation.

From urban Sarajevo to rural Albania, through Belize and Mexico to California, Blood Price is a riveting and addictive read that confirms the storytelling talent that has earned Evans an international following.

Jim Westergard was born in Ogden, Utah in 1939. He was educated at a variety of colleges and universities in California, Arizona and Utah where he completed his BFA and MFA at Utah State. Westergard moved to Red Deer in 1975 and taught at Red Deer College until his retirement in 1999. He became a Canadian citizen in 1980.

Jim Westergard has been creating prints from wood engravings since university days in the late 60s, but had never completed a book-length collection until the original limited letterpress edition of Mother Goose Eggs. The first engraving for this project was finished in 1999. Then, after a four-year struggle which included an unexpected hernia operation and reprinting the press-sheets a second time with helpful hints from Crispin Elsted of the Barbarian Press (Mission, BC), Mother Goose Eggs was finally bound and released in a deluxe edition of eighty copies in 2003.

Westergard continues to create wood engravings on his cantankerous old VanderCook SP-15 proof press which he has affectionately named the 'Spanish Fly'.

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