Book description
The award-winning author of The Way of the Gladiator brings to life medieval Paris and the wolves who held it hostage, in a novel based on real events. Praised as "nature writing at its best," The Wolves of Paris takes readers to fifteenth-century France, a country so decimated by the…
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A pack of wolves is terrorizing Paris. This is after the Hundred Years’ War, so historical fiction (and based on historical accounts).
Courtaud, the alpha male, is a mixed wolf-dog breed who leads his pack of wolves into the streets of Paris to survive on adventurous killing sprees. The loyalty of the pack, their family, all that aggressive protection is the star quality here, revealing the true spirit of wolf.
Courtaud stole my heart, no matter the savage attacks to survive or his wicked head-grip that he used masterfully to subdue his victims. Declared to be a monster and a…
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