Dakota Territory, 1866. Following the murders of a frontier fort's
politically connected sutler and his wife in their illicit off-post
brothel, Lieutenant Martin Molloy and his long-suffering orderly,
Corporal Daniel Kohn, are ordered to track down the killers and return
with "boots for the gallows" to appease powerful figures in Washington.
The men journey west to the distant outpost in a beautiful valley, where
the soldiers inside the fort prove to be violently opposed to their
investigations.
Meanwhile, Irish immigrant brothers Michael and Thomas O'Driscoll have
returned from the brutal front lines of the Civil War. Unable to adapt
to life as migrant farm laborers in peacetime Ohio, they reenlist in the
army and are shipped to Fort Phil Kearny in the heart of the Powder
River Valley. Here they are thrown into merciless combat with Red
Cloud's coalition of Native tribes fighting American expansion into
their hunting grounds. Amidst the daily carnage, Thomas finds a love
that will lead to a moment of violence as brutal as any they have
witnessed in battle--a moment that will change their lives forever.
Blending intimate historical detail and emotional acuity, Wolves of
Eden sets these four men on a deadly collision course in a haunting
narrative that explores the cruelty of warfare and the resilience of the
human spirit.
