I wrote “Deadly Trespass” to entice readers onto a field trip, a journey into a rich and threatened world. I want to be a writer-guide who’s also firmly in a story-teller tradition. Someone who has folks lean too close to the fire on a dark night and say, “Don’t stop. What happens next?”

In “Deadly Trespass,” the narrator, Patton, thinks some city folks see natural vastness as the “Great Nothing.” Not so.