Kurt Larson has developed an epic mining exploration novel in the pages of Under the Batholith. The principal character is a young mining engineer called Lars Svensson, down on his luck in Wyoming, having being fired over an office affair with an older woman. A big oil company, desperate for success in its newly acquired mining interests, selects him to represent their interests on a gold exploration site on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. How Lars gets there, who he meets and what he finds is the stuff of great adventure. Kurt Larson