ESCAPE is an adventure/wilderness survival/suspense novel. The action involves a prison escape on a wilderness river in Northern Wisconsin and the subsequent chase and capture of the inmate by the prison superintendent during an unprecedented Alberta Clipper snowstorm. Since the inmate is Native American Indian, and the superintendent’s children are of Chippewa heritage, there is a strong element of Native American Indian history in the book.

On another level it is the universal story of a man who has to be invulnerable to do his job and succumbs to excessive pride and the need to control. It is a story of fate, drawn from Indian myth and Greek drama.

Mary Sanders Smith born in Illinois divides her time between Grosse Pointe, Michigan, New York City, and northern Wisconsin and is the author of two previous collections of fiction. Her work has received many honors, including an award for fiction from PEN, Detroit Free Press and Detroit Public Library. Her fiction has been published in Arizona Quarterly, University of Michigan Literary Review, Lintel, Trimax Productions, National PBS, and her poetry in Calyx Press. Mary Sanders Smith runs the Classics Books Lecture Series for the Grosse Pointe Public Library.