Synopses & Reviews
At the start of a brutal winter, the wolves have come for the children of Keelut. Three children have been snatched from this isolated Alaskan village, including the six-year-old son of Medora and Vernon Slone. Wolf expert Russell Core arrives in Keelut to investigate the killings and learns of an unholy truth harbored by Medora. When her husband returns from a desert war to discover his boy dead and his wife missing, he begins a maniacal pursuit that cuts a bloody swath across the frozen landscape. As Core attempts to rescue Medora from her husband's vengeance, he comes face to face with a dark secret at the furthermost reaches of American soil. An Alaskan Oresteia, recalls the hyperborean climate and tribalism of Daniel Woodrell's and the primeval violence of Chuck Palahniuk's .
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"A taut, muscular and often unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness. Epic, relentless, and beautifully realized." Dennis Lehane , author of Mystic River
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"Snow, ice, wolves, murder, and dark love are encountered in , William Giraldi's hard, unflinching, and powerful novel. This story and the telling of it have the clout and rigor of a Norse Saga." Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone
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" is a powerful meditation on nature, violence and responsibility with the concentration of a fable or fever dream--a book hard to get out of your mind long after you've put it down." Thomas McGuane
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" is a chilling, mysterious, and completely engaging novel that will keep readers turning pages late into the night. The cold and unforgiving Alaskan wild becomes much more than a backdrop for this spellbinding story. It becomes a character--a living creature with its own hungers, its own secrets, its own icy motives, its own implacable will. I was entranced." Tim O'Brien
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"[F]ierce, extraordinary.... is an unnerving and intimate portrayal of nature gone awry. It's all but bereft of levity, spectacularly violent and exquisitely written." John Wilwol
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This terrifying literary thriller evokes Henning Mankell's in its confrontation with the mystery of evil and the pitilessness of nature.
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A terrifying literary thriller set on the Alaskan tundra, about the mystery of evil and mankind's losing battle with nature.
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At the start of another pitiless winter, the wolves have come for the children of Keelut. Three children have been taken from this isolated Alaskan village, including the six-year-old boy of Medora and Vernon Slone.
About the Author
William Giraldi's work has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Georgia Review, The Believer, Kenyon Review, and Poets & Writers. A senior editor at AGNI, he teaches in the Arts & Sciences Writing Program at Boston University.