Terror in the Oil Patch

Ted Thring is a book reviewer for the Queen’s University radio
station.

The author of this adventure worked on oil rigs back in the 1970s and
wrote about her experiences in High Heels ’n’ Oil Rigs (1995). The
heroine in Terror in the Oil Patch is Jennifer Hardy, a registered nurse
and qualified pilot. The death of her fiancé, a bush pilot whose plane
crashes just days before their wedding, sets her off on a new career as
a medical assistant on a remote drill rig in Alberta. Two of its
workers—a crooked toolpusher and a maverick catskinner—are involved
in a scheme to recover gold from the mud tailings left over after a
drill hole is closed off. Jennifer has a near-death experience, but all
ends well when the RCMP comes to the rescue. This action-packed book
would have benefited from the attention of a scrupulous
editor/proofreader.