Pete Andersen runs.
He runs marathons. He runs from his past. He runs from the fact that his job at EPA amounts to little more than spitting in the wind as the world hurtles toward an inevitable collapse brought on by global warming. He has convinced himself that this is all he can do. All anyone can do. Until he reads the following ad:
"Learn survival skills in the majestic peaks of British Columbia’s Eaglenest Mountains – one of the last remaining wild areas left. Month-long trial taught by an expert in all facets of wilderness. Not for the faint hearted ... "
And encounters Jake Christianson, a physicist, a former Navy SEAL, and a disciple of Lynx, one of the last of the Dunne-za Indians. After three months of training, Pete finds himself and eleven others plunged into a Neolithic paradise. But as Jake reveals that this trip is more than a simple survival course, the group splinters apart, and paradise begins to turn to hell as one-by-one expeditioners are brutally murdered, apparently by a rogue grizzly.
But Pete begins to suspect otherwise. Is it a bear? Could it be Jake? Can Pete trust his judgment as his past failings haunt him once again?
Pete leads the killer – be he bear or man – on an epic chase across the continental divide and through the boreal forests of British Columbia. It is a race from his past; it is a race from terror; it is a race for redemption; it is a race against a pursuer possessed with seemingly supernatural endurance; a race that will push him to the limits of human capacity and beyond, but it is a race he cannot allow himself to lose. Because the survival of all that he loves depends upon him winning.
He runs marathons. He runs from his past. He runs from the fact that his job at EPA amounts to little more than spitting in the wind as the world hurtles toward an inevitable collapse brought on by global warming. He has convinced himself that this is all he can do. All anyone can do. Until he reads the following ad:
"Learn survival skills in the majestic peaks of British Columbia’s Eaglenest Mountains – one of the last remaining wild areas left. Month-long trial taught by an expert in all facets of wilderness. Not for the faint hearted ... "
And encounters Jake Christianson, a physicist, a former Navy SEAL, and a disciple of Lynx, one of the last of the Dunne-za Indians. After three months of training, Pete finds himself and eleven others plunged into a Neolithic paradise. But as Jake reveals that this trip is more than a simple survival course, the group splinters apart, and paradise begins to turn to hell as one-by-one expeditioners are brutally murdered, apparently by a rogue grizzly.
But Pete begins to suspect otherwise. Is it a bear? Could it be Jake? Can Pete trust his judgment as his past failings haunt him once again?
Pete leads the killer – be he bear or man – on an epic chase across the continental divide and through the boreal forests of British Columbia. It is a race from his past; it is a race from terror; it is a race for redemption; it is a race against a pursuer possessed with seemingly supernatural endurance; a race that will push him to the limits of human capacity and beyond, but it is a race he cannot allow himself to lose. Because the survival of all that he loves depends upon him winning.
