Dakota Territory 1867. The O'Driscoll brothers have survived a Sioux massacre but Michael is
gravely wounded. The deserters are fleeing north with Tom's lover Sara when they come upon a
sheltering rock by a river down off the Bozeman trail. If there is game here they may survive
the winter. But their attempts to find food and endure the savage winter are threatened by the
arrival in their camp of two trappers whose presence sets in motion a series of bloody events
that will mark the trio as Outlaws hunted by the Montana Vigilance Committee their likenesses
appearing on Wanted posters in settlements and mining camps along the trail. Enter any town
and they will have to shoot their way out. The rock and the river become their safe place and
when spring comes their paradise. But the world seeks its way to them and even in paradise
human nature makes its own trouble. In this follow-up to his acclaimed novel Wolves of Eden
Kevin McCarthy tells a story of three very human characters battling to survive in a vast
beautiful and unforgiving landscape.
