1994. Audio Renaissance Tapes.
Written By Max Brand.

Read By Barry Corbin.

Once, Hugh Massey and Arnie Calmont were partners and friends. Now they are bitter enemies, torn apart by their love for the same woman - and their hunger to possess Alec, one of the greatest, most powerful dogs in the Yukon. But Alec has gone wild, and is running at the head of a wolf pack deep in the wilderness.

Calmont and Massey call a reluctant truce to track the great animal together. With their friend, young Joe May, they harness their huskies and set out on their quest through the winter snows - knowing there is no certainty that all or any of them will return alive.

"Barry Corbin is a Max Brand hero incarnate. His reading is so easy to listen to you don't want these short stories to end.
Craven outlaws, bloodthirsty bandits and, of course, beautiful women are all portrayed equally well in Corbin's resonant voice. Character accents and genders are easily identified."
- S.C.A. AudioFile Magazine, March 1996.

"Listeners who enjoy the nearly lost art of storytelling will treasure this collection of Max Brand stories written in the 1930's. Perhaps a generation of new listeners, especially young adults, will also get to know these classics.
Actor Barry Corbin is the perfect reader for the material. He has a tough gravelly voice, and his delivery and pacing lure the listener into the atmosphere of the turn-of-the-century West of bloodthirsty bandits, brave cowboys and beautiful women."
- B.V. AudioFile Magazine, March 1996.