The events lead the special agent to a series of clues that could change everything he knows-or thinks he knows-about the town, his family, and himself. His suspicions are heightened after a bizarre wolf attack on local livestock. Rivers breaks into his childhood home during a howling winter storm and discovers something sinister. His experiences have given him a penchant for understanding predators-a skill he’ll need, now, more than ever.Īfter his father’s mysterious death, Rivers is lured back to his hometown of Defiance, in northern Minnesota, to fulfill his mother’s dying wish. He found solace in nature and built a respected career as a special agent for the U.S. Rivers left the family farm some 20 years ago. In this outdoors thriller, the investigation of a bizarre wolf attack leads to evidence of murder, conspiracy, and shocking family secrets.Ī decades-old promise haunts Sam Rivers, but the wildlife biologist refuses to return home-not with his abusive and estranged father still there. This title is also available at your favorite e-book vendor.Special agent Sam Rivers’ investigation of a bizarre wolf attack leads to evidence of murder, conspiracy, and shocking family secrets in this wildlife-themed thriller.Griffith is a freelance writer who specializes in writing about the outdoors. Lost in the Wild takes readers with them as they enter realms of pain, fear, and courage, as they suffer dizzying confusion and unending frustration, and as they overcome seemingly insurmountable hurdles in a race to survive. After a two-day trek into a remote area of the woods, he stepped away from his campsite and made a series of seemingly trivial mistakes that left him separated from his supplies, wet, and lost, as cold darkness fell.Įnduring days without food or shelter, these men faced the full harsh force of wilderness, the place that they had sought out for tranquil refuge from city life. Three years later, Jason Rasmussen, a third-year medical student who loved the forest’s solitude, walked alone into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on a crisp fall day. More than four hours later, Dan awakened with a lump on his head from a fall and stumbled deeper into the woods, confused. He stepped into a gap among cedar trees to look for the next portage-and did not return. On a beautiful summer afternoon in 1998, Dan Stephens, a 22-year-old canoeist, was leading a trip deep into Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park. In the wilderness, one false step can make the difference between a delightful respite and a brush with death.
True survival odysseys of two wilderness trekkers who entered the woods in search of tranquility but found something else entirely. Minnesota Historical Society Press ( April 15, 2007)
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