Wolf Code
A Sheltering Wilderness
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HUNTERS BECOME PREY?
When a deadly threat invades the home territory of a wolf pack and their alphas go missing, a new male and female must rise to lead the pack through the crisis.
In the human world, another alliance begins between a reclusive video-game designer and a Cherokee animal-rights activist. Since being mauled by a dog as a boy, Don has retreated into video games and dreamed of working for a company that specialized in werewolf-hunter games. However, when he meets Tsula, she challenges him to see wolves in a new light and pushes him out into a series of wilderness adventures.
In the distant wood, the new alpha pair discovers they face a serious challenge. Will they be able to outmaneuver their rivals, unite the other wolves, and escape with their lives? Must they find a new home or stay and fight?
Tsula's activism drives Don into a double life, though, when she targets the video-game company where he works for its misrepresentation of wolves. Don feels pulled between two worlds, the realm of game design just opening to him and the wilderness Tsula has introduced to him. Which will he finally choose as his own?
And why does the fate of the wolf pack rest in his decision?
For fans of animal fantasy, outdoor adventure, werewolves, science-fiction suspense, and romantic drama.
Jungle Book meets Ready Player One!
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brett's debut intersperses the human world of game design, postgraduate university relationships, and virtual reality with the much more fascinating lives of gray wolves. During Donovan Williams's first semester as a teaching assistant, he is challenged by, and attracted to, student Tsula Watie, an activist who's passionate about wolves. As Don and Tsula get closer, he finds it necessary to hide his passion: working on the virtual reality game Transylvania Nights, in which players kill werewolves to survive. Woven through the narrative of Don and Tsula's relationship is the compelling journey of Kan and Lana, the new alpha pair of a wolf pack that's being driven from its hunting grounds by tigers. The ethical questions that Don must deal with, including animal rights and the benefits of virtual and immersive reality, are important, but a fluid timeline confuses the reader and doesn't allow Don and Tsula much depth. Brett's writing is much more natural in the portrayal of the wolf pack, showing their social structures and environmental pressures without overly anthropomorphizing. Ideally in future volumes Brett will develop the humans as much as the wolves. (BookLife)
