Review of Wolvers by Taylor Brown

Taylor Brown offers up a suspenseful, adventure-filled story in Wolvers. Trace is an angry young man who sets out on an ill-advised, illegal revenge journey, but he's not the only wolf tracker in the New Mexico forest. He's starting to rethink his mission and be headed toward a fresh start--if he can survive that long.

Trace Temple is a disillusioned, angry young man whose family lost its ranch after hard times. Then Trace, a gifted tracker who knows the woods better than almost anyone around, is hired by a shadowy, powerful militia group to take out One-Eleven, the female leader of the most famous wolf pack in New Mexico, the Dark Canyons.

But One-Eleven is uncannily gifted in eluding human pursuit, and Trace is far from the only outdoorsman in these woods.

And the longer Trace tracks One-Eleven, the more he begins to second-guess everything about his life.

This is an outdoor adventure story that explores tensions between the preservation of nature and development, and between power and vulnerability. But it’s also layered with elements of redemption, love, unlikely loyalties, and character growth.

I was surprised by Trace's slow, powerful transformation and by the arc of this beautiful story. I loved this book.

The wilderness setting and suspenseful story reminded me of Peter Heller’s books like The River, The Last Ranger, and The Guide.

I received a prepublication version of this title courtesy of NetGalley and St. Martin's Press.

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I'm a huge Taylor Brown fan.

Check out my Bossy reviews of his novels Rednecks, Wingwalkers, The Gods of Howl Mountain, and Fallen Land, a title I loved and included in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War.