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Maine Game Warden Investigator Mike Bowditch’s truck is sabotaged and plunges into the icy, swift moving Androscoggin River.

His beloved wolf-hybrid mix, Shadow, is inside a specially constructed kennel which Bowditch must breach to release him. For the next 24 hours, the game warden is chased by people he’s previously arrested now seeking vengeance. Shadow appears several times to warn him of his enemies’ moves.

The writing is tight, the story suspenseful and reminiscent of Lee Child’s 61 Hours, where Jack Reacher is also trapped by a blizzard and battles to save a special woman and others in South Dakota…

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