"With but two years of service in the RNMP Philip Raine finds himself somewhat unwillingly on the trail of Bram Johnson, wanted for murder and a wild, untamed and savage man who commands a pack of wolves as his brethren.
But most peculiar of all is the snare which Bram had had in his posession and had somehow lost. It was a golden snare intricately woven out of the finest, most delicate flaxen hair of a woman. But what could possibly be the relationship between this half-human murderer and a woman who could have borne a crown of such beauty and elegance? The mystery of Bram Johnson and his wolves and the golden snare becomes one which Raine feels compelled to unravel even as he pursues the wild man and his pack among his own territory of the Canadian barren lands.
(Summary by Roger Melin)"
James Oliver Curwood
**James Oliver Curwood** (1878-1927), surnommé le « maître du Grand Nord », est un romancier américain célèbre pour ses récits d'aventure et ses évocations de la nature sauvage. Journaliste puis écrivain, il a vécu plusieurs années dans les territoires glacés du Canada, ce qui a profondément inspiré son œuvre. Ses romans, souvent comparés à ceux de Jack London, mêlent action, suspense et une profonde réflexion sur la relation entre l'homme et la nature. Curwood a marqué la littérature populaire du début du XXᵉ siècle par son style immersif et son amour des grands espaces.
