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The Wolves of Paris
The Wolves of Paris
Daniel P. Mannix
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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 Hundred Years’ War that its people became prey for marauding wolf packs (Hartford Courant). With France split among the English, the Burgundians, and the forces of the weak Charles VII, a wolf-dog rises to ensure the existence of his pack by any means necessary . . . Courtaud begins his life as the possession of a count until an attack on the castle leaves him to fend for himself. To survive, the huge, russet-colored beast ingratiates himself into a pack of wolves he will soon lead, with his mate, Silver, at his side. Without the wild wolf’s innate fear of man—and driven to starvation by vicious...
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