{"lc_classifications": ["PS3568.E47637 M53 2000"], "title": "Midnight sun", "covers": [241941], "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "The best I can say was that I went to Alaska to build houses on an army base with my buddy Burke."}, "subject_places": ["Alaska"], "first_publish_date": "2000", "key": "/works/OL2010432W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL242163A"}}], "dewey_number": ["813/.54"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Wilderness areas", "Fiction", "Wilderness survival", "Adventure stories", "Fiction, general", "New York Times reviewed", "General"], "links": [{"url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/15/books/books-in-brief-fiction-523518.html", "title": "New York Times review", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Looking for thrills and some easy money, two itinerant construction workers, Jack and Burke, agree to help a desperate father rescue his daughter from a strange millennial cult for a fee of ten thousand dollars. Their quest takes them into the most dangerous territory on the continent - the dark woods of Alaska.\".\n\n\"Jack and Burke swiftly and excruciatingly learn that their rescue-the-girl mission is anything but a walk in the woods for a large chunk of money. Face to face with the disfigured cult leader, they discover that the stakes are much higher, involving a deadly grizzly bear and large amounts of newly mined gold.\n\nJack, initially less confident than the hard-ass Burke, finds himself assuming control of the expedition as they move deeper and deeper into the bush and every decision becomes a question of life or death.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "genres": ["/tags/OL164T"], "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:42:32.455137"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-30T21:48:11.652513"}}