Dakota Territory, 1867. The O'Driscoll brothers have survived a Sioux
massacre, but Michael is gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing
north with Tom's lover, Sara, when they come upon a sheltering rock by a
river down off the Bozeman trail. If there is game here, they may
survive the winter. But their attempts to find food and endure the
savage winter are threatened by the arrival in their camp of two
trappers, whose presence sets in motion a series of bloody events that
will mark the trio as Outlaws, hunted by the Montana Vigilance
Committee, their likenesses appearing on Wanted posters in settlements
and mining camps along the trail. Enter any town, and they will have to
shoot their way out. The rock and the river become their safe place, and
when spring comes, their paradise. But the world seeks its way to them,
and even in paradise human nature makes its own trouble. In this
follow-up to his acclaimed novel, Wolves of Eden, Kevin McCarthy tells
a story of three very human characters battling to survive in a vast,
beautiful, and unforgiving landscape.