title: The Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West
author:  Nate Blakeslee 
description: <i>The Wolf</i> is an intimate and riveting book about Americas most iconic and embattled predator. . . . A wonderful and welcome addition to the pantheon of nature literature. <b>John Vaillant</b>, author of <i>The Tiger</i> and <i>The Golden Spruce</i><br /> <br /> [A] startlingly intimate portrait of the intricate, loving, human-like interrelationships that govern wolves in the wild, as observed in real time by a cadre of dedicated wolf-watchersin the end, a drama of lupine love, care, and grief. <b>Erik Larson</b>, author of <i>The Devil in the White City</i> and <i>Dead Wake</i> <br /> <br /> Gripping and fascinating! Wolf versus wolf, wolf versus man, man versus man. <b>Margaret Atwood</b>, author of <i>The Handmaids Tale</i> and <i>Hag-Seed</i> (via Twitter)<br /> <br /> Written with heart, but not sentimentality, <i>The Wolf</i> is nothing less than Shakespearean tragedy played out against the backdrop of our troubled relationship with nature. <b>J.B. MacKinnon</b>, author of <i>The Once and Future World</i><br /> <br /> Gorgeously written, and offering stunning insights into both animal and human nature, <i>The Wolf</i> is a masterly feat of science journalism. <b>Michael Finkel</b>, author of <i>The Stranger in the Woods</i><br /> <br />Wild, poignant, and compelling, <i>The Wolf</i> is an important, beautifully wrought book about animals, about values, and about living on this earth. <b>Susan Orlean</b>, author of <i>The Orchid Thief </i>and <i>Rin Tin Tin</i><br /> <br /> A transcendent tale of the American West. <b>S. C. Gwynne</b>, author of <i>Empire of the Summer Moon</i> and <i>Rebel Yell</i><br /> <br /> Nate Blakeslee has achieved the Jack London-like feat of creating a great story whose main character is an animal. <b>Nicholas Lemann</b>, author of <i>The Big Test</i> and <i>Redemption</i><br /> <br /> There are so few wolves in the West that each one can cast a kind of enchantment. This fine book takes one animal, and uses it as a way to understand the vectors that whipsaw the last wild places. It will linger in your mind and heart. <b>Bill McKibben</b>, author of <i>The End of Nature</i> and <i>Radio Free Vermont</i><br /> <br />Engaging . . . a must read for researchers, citizen scientists, and visitors to Yellowstone, where the story of the wolves continues to evolve. <b><i>Science</i></b><br /> <br />Beautiful, detailed . . . [<i>The Wolf</i>] centers on the rise, reign, and family life of O-Six, matriarch of the Lamar Canyon pack and so well-known to park visitors that the <i>New York Times</i> gave her an obituary. <b><i>Publishers Weekly</i> (starred) </b><br /> <br /> The fight . . . [over] Yellowstones wolves is embodied in O-Sixs story, told with great immediacy and empathy in a tale that reads like fiction. This one will grab readers and impel them into the heart of the conflict. <b><i>Booklist</i> (starred)</b><br /> <br /> Utterly compelling. . . . Blakeslees masterly use of fiction writing techniques to ratchet up the tension will hook a wide swath of readers. <b><i>Library Journal</i> (starred)</b> <br /> <br />Heartbreaking front-line coverage of our war on the wild . . . . Blakeslee hauntingly gives the victims faces, families, and stories. A quietly angry, aching, important book. <b>Charles Foster</b>, author of <i>Being a Beast</i><br /> <br /> A compelling environmental drama of the reintroduction of wolves to the Rockies, as clear-sighted on human politics as it is on wolf politics. <b>Neil Ansell</b>, author of <i>Deep Country</i><br /> <br /> The <i>Game of Thrones</i> story of modern western wolves, [unfolding] in just as riveting a fashion. It is an absolutely mesmerizing read. <b>Dan Flores</b>, author of <i>Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History</i><br /> <br /> <i>The Wolf</i> gives us true profiles of wolf lives lived in their actual families. And when humans get involved, the trajectory of their lives forever changes. <b>Carl Safina</b>, author of <i>Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel</i><br /> <br /> [A] rich, poignant story of wolf recovery in Yellowstone and its impacts on the surrounding countryside and communities. <b><i>National Parks Traveler</i></b>
zlib_text: **Atlanta Heat**
  
  
  **By**
  
  
  **Lora Leigh**
  
  
  # Prologue
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  
  Chapter Two
  
  
  Chapter Three
  
  
  Chapter Four
  
  
  Chapter Five
  
  
  Chapter Six
  
  
  Chapter Seven
  
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  
  Chapter Ten
  
  
  Chapter Eleven
  
  # Epilogue
  
  
  **Prologue**
  
  
  
  
  
  Some women a man knew to stay the hell away from. It was a self-preservation
  thing. Survival instinct. The lone wolf that reveled in its independence and
  sexual freedom knew when it was staring in the eyes of a sensual trap. A woman
  capable of making the male animal stand up, take notice, and tremble in his
  military boots.
  
  
  Mason "Macey" March was a man who liked to live on the edge, though. He was
  all about the challenge, the risk, the excitement, whether it was a mission or
  a woman, or a terrorist out to destroy the world. He was a man who stared out
  at life with a defiant snarl and dared it to take first blood.
  
  
  He was a man staring at his own destruction, and he had enough sense to
  recognize it, and to be equally terrified and dra