Hybrid: A Thriller - Paperback

by James Marshall Smith (Author)

Once he's on your scent, it's too late to run.

Dieter Harmon-a newcomer to the West, struggling to establish his veterinary practice-discovers the mutilated body of a hiker. The corpse has been severely mauled; the head hangs from the neck by a single strip of tattered flesh. The scene is hideous, but what terrifies Harmon are the claw marks on the victim's chest. Something has gone horribly wrong with the government's plan to restore wolves to Yellowstone.

As he seeks answers, Harmon is drawn into an escalating battle with the chief park ranger, an obsessive man who will go to any extreme to defend his dream project. For the ranger, this fight is personal. And "accidents" happen in the high country all the time.

While Harmon hunts the wilderness of Yellowstone for a killer wolf breed that shouldn't exist, he soon realizes that he's being stalked by two predators-very different in nature, but both equally deadly.

Author Biography

James Marshall Smith is an award-winning author and scientist with a research career that has spanned multiple disciplines from biophysics to terrorism response. His work has taken him around the globe, providing source material for intriguing characters and alluring insight to his fiction. His first novel, Silent Source, was described by the San Francisco Book Review as a "stunning debut." The Manhattan Book Review praised him as the "master of suspense" and compared his fiction to the writing of James Patterson. Hybrid was a short-list finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Award and a finalist for the Colorado Gold Novel Contest. James lives in Georgia with his wife, June, and their bossy Maltese, Georgie. You can find him online at www.JamesMarshallSmith.com.