The Dog Master

Thirty thousand years ago, ice was storming the planet. Among the species forced out of the trees and onto the steppes by the advancing cold was modern man, who was both predator and prey. No stranger to the experiences that make us human--a mother's love and a father's betrayal, tribal war and increasing famine, political intrigue and forbidden love, joy and hope and devastating loss--our ancestors competed for scant resources in a brutal landscape. Mankind stood on the cold brink of extinction, but they had a unique advantage over other species, a new technology: domesticated wolves. Only a set of extraordinary circumstances could have transformed one of these fierce creatures into a hunting companion, a bodyguard, a soldier, and a friend. W. Bruce Cameron's The Dog Master is an evocative glimpse of prehistory, an emotional coming of age saga, a thrilling tale of survival against all odds, and the exciting, imaginative story of the first dog.

W. Bruce Cameron is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose, A Dog's Way Home, and A Dog's Journey--all now made into major motion pictures--as well as numerous other novels, works of nonfiction, and books for young readers. As a newspaper columnist, he won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Award for best humor columnist and the 2006 Robert Benchley Award.