Dutch McCann's Northwoods Files

He kept the North Woods' secrets for forty years. Now he's opening the files.

Retired FBI Special Agent Douglas "Dutch" McCann is eighty-seven, six-foot-four, and still splits his own firewood at the cabin he built on the shore of Lake Superior. When Pops brings him down to the VFW in Hayward, Wisconsin, the regulars learn two things fast: don't shake his hand, and don't ask a question unless you want the whole story.

A KGB spy undone by his love of fishing. A tuft of white hair from a cave near Lutsen Mountain that Dutch still carries in his billfold. Whitefish that weigh almost twenty pounds because they're stuffed with cash. A killer who lined up shoes by the door. A cat that made an arrest, a French spy who couldn't handle chip dip, a ninja on a hotel roof-and one button at a Wisconsin rocket lab Dutch never should have pushed.

Told in Dutch's own voice over cold beer and cribbage, these ten cases are chilling, hilarious, and pure North Country. Some of it is history. Some of it is legend. Dutch will let you decide which is which.

Pull up a chair. Breakfast is on Pops.