AN OUTDOOR ACTION ADVENTURE Sheriff Louis Parker is driven in pursuit of hardened criminal Billy McClain in the death of fellow police officer Lino Crocetti during a bank robbery in Monterey. The pursuit of McClain winds deep into the North Yukon Territory with his guide Sam Getty, a veteran mountain man who believes spiritual powers reside within the mountains. Author Don Alberts exposes his outdoor achievement in a wild chase into the north mountain wilderness as young sheriff Louis Parker, an unready neophyte at the hard and serious conditions of the outdoors is driven in criminal pursuit. Parker avoids tragedy through the efforts and skill of his faithful guide, Sam Getty; a man who believes in the mountains and finds intuitive powers among them. Beyond the Grand Matoeba provides an invigorating foray into danger, conflict, and the survival powers of human character, good and bad.