Urbane, vain Nick Montaigne has a taste for Porsches, fifties jazz, and cinnamon chewing gum.
Cue up some Dave Brubeck, strap on a backpack, and join Montaigne and Wister as they hunt for a mysterious psycho killer, lurking somewhere between downtown Atlanta and the trail shelter near Buzzard Knob..
Black JACKKNIFE is a Mystery thriller with a little sex, a little blood, and several packets of freeze-dried noodles.
Montaigne not only has to hobnob with tennis studs at an elite university, and match wits with an arrogant attorney while bedding the man\'s ex-wife, he also has to keep trail dirt out of his Italian shoes, all while solving a murder and disappearance.
In Black JACKKNIFE, author Peter Kurtz introduces a detective who has the panache of James Bond and the craftiness of Lieutenant Columbo.
When a beautiful Georgia coed is brutally murdered on the Appalachian Trail, detective Montaigne and his lovable but awkward partner Vern Wister are pulled into terra incognita.
Urbane, vain Nick Montaigne has a taste for Porsches, fifties jazz, and cinnamon chewing gum