The Wild Hunt

In 1887 Webb Guthrie deserts the Army after a massacre and joins hunters killing drakes, ancient reptiles whose burning blood fuels the railroads. But Webb hears the dying creatures' thoughts. Led by Gideon Poole, a philosopher who calls extinction mercy and consciousness disease, they push deeper into country where empires are built on bones. Blood Meridian meets Annihilation in this brutal meditation on what we destroy to call ourselves civilized

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